booty

Pluralbooties

1. 1
   backsidenounslangcountable

   A person's buttocks.

   She does squats three times a week to tone her booty.

   The DJ played one more song and told the crowd to shake their booties.

   Similarbutt, bottom, backside, behind, bum

   Note

   It is slang but cheeky rather than crude, and a 1976 song, "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty," turned it into a dance-floor command. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • The named song was released in 1976. en.wikipedia.org
   • The song presents shaking one's booty as an invitation to dance. en.wikipedia.org
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   nouncountable or uncountable

   Goods or valuables taken by force, as from an enemy in war, a captured ship, or by pirates.

   The invading army stripped the city's palaces and carried off a vast booty of gold and silk.

   Each member of the pirate crew was promised an equal share of the booty.

   Similarloot, plunder, spoils

   Note

   Its nearest rivals are spoils and prey, and George Crabb's English Synonymes sorts them neatly: the soldier gets his booty, the combatant his spoils, the carnivorous animal his prey. Booty is what serves the captor personally, spoils are whatever marks his triumph, and prey is what feeds an appetite. So a pirate crew shares out booty, while a victorious general displays spoils. Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

   • George Crabb's English Synonymes assigns booty to the soldier, spoils to the combatant and prey to the carnivorous animal. en.wiktionary.org
   • Crabb distinguishes booty by personal usefulness, spoils by their representation of triumph and prey by satisfaction of appetite. en.wiktionary.org
3. 3
   soft shoenoun

   Another spelling of bootee: a soft or protective covering for the foot, such as a baby's knitted shoe, a disposable overshoe, or a neoprene diving boot.

   Visitors to the clean room must pull a paper booty over each shoe.

   The diver tugged a thick neoprene booty onto each foot before zipping up his wetsuit.

   UsageWriting bootee keeps the shoe apart from the other meanings of this spelling.

   Note

   The footwear word comes from boot and has nothing to do with plunder or the slang senses; they only share a spelling and the plural booties. It covers what bootee covers: a knitted baby shoe, a thick sock worn under a wetsuit, an overshoe pulled over dirty shoes. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • The footwear word derives from boot. en.wiktionary.org
   • The footwear word has a separate etymology from the plunder and slang senses. en.wiktionary.org
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   haulnounfigurativelycountable or uncountable

   Something stolen, or obtained illegally, mischievously, or greedily from somewhere else.

   My brother came back from the hotel with a bag of booty: soaps, pens, and tiny bottles of shampoo.

   The hackers sold their booty of stolen passwords on a private forum.

   UsageTo name what was taken, use of: a booty of candies, a booty of stolen passwords.

   Similarloot, haul, swag

   Note

   The extended use is often a joke, dressing a harmless haul up as a pirate's plunder: trick-or-treaters settle down with their booty of candies, a traveler comes home with hotel soaps. The stretch is old; Crabb's diligent bee already returns loaded with its booty. Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 1 fact

   • The figurative extension is old, and George Crabb uses the example of a diligent bee returning loaded with its booty. upload.wikimedia.org
5. 5
   having sexnounslangvulgaruncountable

   Sexual intercourse.

   UsageUsually after get, often with some: get some booty.

   Similarsex, intercourse, lovemaking, action, copulation

   Note

   The line from booty as a person is thin, since both are things a speaker chases or brags about; talk of getting some, rather than meeting someone, points to this sense. Jeph Jacques's Questionable Content gives it a victory chant: "I got some booty." Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Jeph Jacques wrote Questionable Content. en.wikipedia.org
   • Questionable Content contains the quoted words "I got some booty" in a repeated chant. en.wiktionary.org
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   nounslangvulgaruncountable

   A person regarded as a sexual partner or as a sex object.

   Similarhookup, bedmate

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