# booty

Pronunciation: say "BOO-tee" US /ˈbuti/, AUS /ˈbuːti/

## Noun

1. A person's buttocks. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The part of your body that you sit on.
   - _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._
2. Goods or valuables taken by force, as from an enemy in war, a captured ship, or by pirates.
   - Simple: Valuable things that soldiers or pirates take by force.
   - _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._
3. 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. — Alternative spelling of bootee.
   - Simple: Another spelling of bootee: a soft shoe or cover for the foot, often a baby's knitted shoe.
   - _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._
4. Something stolen, or obtained illegally, mischievously, or greedily from somewhere else.
   - Simple: Things that someone has stolen, or taken in a sneaky or greedy way.
   - _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._
5. Sexual intercourse. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The act of having sex.
6. A person regarded as a sexual partner or as a sex object. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A person someone thinks of only as a partner for sex.

## Adjective

7. Of low quality; bad. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Very bad or of poor quality.
   - _The phone update is booty: it drains the battery and crashes every few minutes._
   - _Honestly, the food at that place is booty, and the prices are worse._

## Origin

**Meanings 2, 4** — Middle Low German bǖte, meaning "loot, distribution, exchange," has an obscure origin but is related to German Beute ("booty"). It passed into Old French as butin and then into Middle English as buty or botye. The word may go back to Proto-Celtic *boudi ("profit, gains, victory"), and boot (as in to boot) perhaps influenced its sense.
**Meanings 1, 5–7** — The word is probably an altered form of botty. Booty in its older sense of plunder may have influenced it.
**Meaning 3** — Formed from boot.

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