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boodle
[ bood-l ]
noun
- the lot, pack, or crowd:
Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- a large quantity of something, especially money:
He's worth a boodle.
- a bribe or other illicit payment, especially to or from a politician; graft.
- stolen goods; loot; booty; swag.
verb (used without object)
- to obtain money dishonestly, as by bribery or swindling.
boodle
/ ˈbuːdəl /
verb
- to give or receive money corruptly or illegally
Other Words From
- boodler noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of boodle1
Word History and Origins
Origin of boodle1
Idioms and Phrases
- kit and boodle. kit 1( def 10 ).
Example Sentences
It really ain't safe for such pilgrims t' be cavortin' over the prairies with all that boodle in their jeans.
Samoa and the Samoans for children (letters to Miss Boodle on), xxv.
The idlers at "Boodle's" can neither sneer at a "msalliance," nor hint at the "faiblesse" of an "elderly gentleman."
I'm the real thing—a good old Cotton-Petticoat—birth, breeding and boodle.
But it had like to have cost the nursery-maid (a Swiss girl that Fitz-Boodle hired somewhere in his travels) her place.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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