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booty noun [ ˈbuːti ]

• valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war.
Similar: loot, plunder, pillage, haul, prize, trophy, spoils, stolen goods, gains, ill-gotten gains, profits, pickings, takings, winnings, swag, boodle, the goods,
Origin: late Middle English (originally denoting plunder acquired in common): from Middle Low German būte, buite ‘exchange, distribution’, of uncertain origin.

booty noun

• a person's bottom.
• "you're picky about the music you firm your booty to"
Origin: 1920s: probably an alteration of body or botty.

shake one's booty

• dance energetically.
"I was shaking my booty to a groove by the Larks"



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