boodle
Americannoun
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the lot, pack, or crowd.
Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
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a large quantity of something, especially money.
He's worth a boodle.
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a bribe or other illicit payment, especially to or from a politician; graft.
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stolen goods; loot; booty; swag.
verb (used without object)
idioms
noun
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money or valuables, esp when stolen, counterfeit, or used as a bribe
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another word for caboodle
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of boodle
1615–25, < Dutch boedel property
Example Sentences
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It costs $8.95, quite a boodle for some mashed-up fruit.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2018
So, please, don’t fall for our starry, smoggy skies and our bottomless cache of boodle and Botox.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2017
Prime Minister Razak, Najid, is rotten as twenty day squid; he puts away boodle like warm apple strudel, and operates like Cap'n Kidd.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016
First off, I don’t like buying stocks at $500 a share even if they hold a boodle of cash on their balance sheet.
From Forbes ● Sep. 17, 2013
Jamie asked, “How come you don’t sell the sketch? You could get quite a boodle for it. Being that it matches up with the statue and all.”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
The Orient Express works well as a tourist charter, but this chichi choochoo, as one Chicago paper tagged it, will need business people, lobbyists and boodling politicians to fill its regular runs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago, when Dwight Green was governor, the boodling pols still waxed fat in the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oetje John Rogge was able to turn this boodling into a Federal offense by showing that banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans cleared the checks by mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
The techniques of boodling were little-known and regarded with a certain awe by the mid-nineteenth-century public.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
Therefore, people do not always see that boodling is treason; that blackmail is piracy, that tax-dodging is larceny.
From Teaching the Child Patriotism by Clarke, Kate Upson
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