PLUNDER

Plunder

Plunder is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fifth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the actors formed a regular core cast for the Aldwych farces. The play shows two friends committing a jewel robbery, for arguably honourable reasons, with fatal results.

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plunder

Noun

  1. An instance of plundering
  2. The loot attained by plundering
    ''The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
  3. baggage; luggage

Verb

  1. To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
    ''The mercenaries plundered the small town.
    The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
  2. To take (goods) by pillage.
    The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
  3. To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
    ''"Now to plunder, mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
  4. To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
    ''The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.


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