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caboodle

[kuh-bood-l]
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noun Informal.

the lot, pack, or crowd: I have no use for the whole caboodle.

RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

  1. cabob,
  2. caboched,
  3. cabochon,
  4. caboché,
  5. caboclo,
  6. caboose,
  7. cabora bassa,
  8. caboshed,
  9. cabot,
  10. cabot strait

Idioms

    kit and caboodle. kit1(def 10).

Origin of caboodle

1840–50, Americanism; perhaps ca- + boodle
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British Dictionary definitions for caboodle

caboodle

noun

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

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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