BOODLE

Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops

(noun) 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

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

(noun) informal terms for money

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

boodle (countable and uncountable, plural boodles)

Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.

(US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

Synonyms

• (money): See Thesaurus:money

• (illegally acquired money): See Thesaurus:booty

• (whole collection)

Anagrams

• bloode, boledo, boloed

Source: Wiktionary


Boo"dle, n. Etym: [Origin uncertain.]

1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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