What is stolen money called? [duplicate]
I have a question about money.
We have different sorts of money such as blood money and I was wondering what stolen money is called.
Is there any kind of specific word for this type of money?
loot (n)
1.1) Stolen money or valuables.
"The gang escaped with their loot"
-Lexico
An example I saw was from Unsolved Texas Mysteries (Wallace O Chariton)
...having so much money..one of them presented the prudent thing to do would be to bury the loot...
Another thing to take under consideration is that money is a fairly recent concept. Originally the "coin of the realm" was minted in copper, silver, and gold. Paper money, while invented centuries ago in China, was not used in the western world until only in the last 400 years.
I have also seen this used by Calvin to describe his take at Christmas.
Although this probably destroys my case, I could not resist posting a Calvin & Hobbes strip by the famous Bill Watterson.
You can use booty:
[ U ] any valuable things or money stolen by an army at war or by thieves.
(Cambridge Dictionary)
I like swag myself
Dictionary.com
noun
Slang.
plunder; booty.
money; valuables.
If you put loot into a thesaurus you'll find more synonyms.