The Clue
Pillages (5 letter answer)
The Answer
LOOTS
Tags
Notes
The answer LOOTS is uncommon, appearing about once every 500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Despoils
Plunders
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Rifles
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Vandalizes
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Grabs and runs, say
Makes off with illegally
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Takes the money and runs?
Definition
LOOT as a noun:
1. (loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money) = goods or money obtained illegally
2. (boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum) = informal terms for money
LOOT as a verb:
1. (loot, plunder) = take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
2. (plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray) = steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"