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caboodle

[kuh-bood-l]
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noun Informal.
  1. the lot, pack, or crowd: I have no use for the whole caboodle.
Idioms
  1. kit and caboodle. kit1(def 10).

Origin of caboodle

1840–50, Americanism; perhaps ca- + boodle
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Related Words for caboodle

product, many, company, collection, volume, amount, lot, estimate, total, sum, quantity, bevy, group, crowd, cluster, mess, chunk, flock, number, bundle

Examples from the Web for caboodle

Historical Examples of caboodle

  • The girls are the worst of the caboodle, though some of 'em aren't bad looking.

    It Happened in Egypt

    C. N. Williamson

  • The whole pack and caboodle are chasing me in a nightmare every time I go to sleep.

    The Landloper

    Holman Day

  • They only had to wait a couple of hours and the whole kit and caboodle would have been dumped in their laps.

  • S'pose you do it, and paddle round outside o' the reef and board the yacht, the whole kit and caboodle of ye.

    Pirates' Hope

    Francis Lynde

  • Why, I wouldn't give a snap of my fingers fer the whole kit and caboodle of ye, you low-down, sneakin' parcel o' thieves.

    Bob Hampton of Placer

    Randall Parrish

British Dictionary definitions for caboodle

caboodle

noun
  1. informal a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)

Word Origin for caboodle

C19: probably contraction of kit 1 and boodle
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Word Origin and History for caboodle
n.

c.1848, see kit.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with caboodle

caboodle

see whole kit and caboodle.

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