Loot is a stage play by Joe Orton; see loot (play).
Loot is also a daily paper and online service in the UK that provides classified ads; see loot (paper) Loot Online (http://www.loot.com)
Loot may also refer to treasure or wealth that is found or stolen. Purposely seeking and aquiring wealth or treasure in such a fashion is called looting.
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Looting (which derives via the Hindi lut from Sanskrit lunt, to rob), sacking, or plundering is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe or riot, such as during war [1], natural disaster [2], rioting [3], or terrorist attack [4].
Piracy is form of looting organized by ships on the high seas outside the control of a sovereign government.
Looting also cascades through a group of people as one person believes that his contribution to the crime is lessened because someone else is looting.
Looting in a gaming context, specifically in MMOGs, is the process by which a player character obtains items such as in-game currency, spells, equipment or weapons from the corpse of a creature or possibly the corpse of another player in a PVP situation (cf.
Looting may also be referred to in leet speak as lewting.
A term related to looting is "ninja." A ninja, in gaming, may be a person who loots a corpse out of turn or without permission from group or raid members.
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