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boodle

  (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.]


 
 
Thesaurus: boodle

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.

 
WordNet: boodle
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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


 
Wikipedia: boodle
For the Simon Templar short story collection of this title by Leslie Charteris, see Boodle (The Saint).


Boodle, or boodler, was a barroom 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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