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Dictionary: boo·dle   (būd'l) pronunciation
n. Slang
    1. Money, especially counterfeit money.
    2. Money accepted as a bribe.
  1. Stolen goods; swag.
  2. A crowd of people; caboodle.

[Dutch boedel, estate, from Middle Dutch bōdel.]


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(BOOD-l)

noun
An illegal payment, as in graft.

verb intr.
To take money dishonestly, especially from graft.

Etymology
From Dutch boedel (property)

Usage
"100 years ago, June 2, 1905: [Several senators and representatives] were arrested yesterday on charges growing out of the alleged boodling operations in the last general assembly." — Other Days; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Jun 2, 2005.


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noun

  1. Money, property, or a favor given, offered, or promised to a person or accepted by a person in a position of trust as an inducement to dishonest behavior: bribe, fix, graft, payola. Informal payoff. See crimes, money, persuasion/dissuasion.
  2. Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime: booty, loot, pillage, plunder, spoil (used in plural). Nautical prize. See crimes, give/take/reciprocity.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
  Synonyms: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, stops


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For the Simon Templar short story collection of this title by Leslie Charteris, see Boodle (The Saint). For the London gentlemen's club, see Boodle's

Boodle, or boodler, was a bar-room or street term for money or booty applied by the yellow press (in 1884-1886) to members of the New York Board of Aldermen who were charged with accepting bribes in connection with the granting of a franchise for a street railroad on Broadway. Thereafter, the term came into common use to signify bribery in general and particularly in municipal governments.

Source: Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940


 
 
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Compilation (1986 Album by The Clean)
caboodle
whole kit and caboodle, the (Idiom)

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