- Money, especially counterfeit money.
- Money accepted as a bribe.
- Stolen goods; swag.
- A crowd of people; caboodle.
[Dutch boedel, estate, from Middle Dutch bōdel.]
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[Dutch boedel, estate, from Middle Dutch bōdel.]
noun
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,
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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