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Webster 1913 Edition
Boodle
Boo′dle
(boō′dˊl)
, Noun.
[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.]
Definition 2024
boodle
boodle
English
Noun
boodle (uncountable)
- Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
- around 1900, O. Henry, According to Their Lights
- He was your 'man higher up' when you were on the force. His share of the boodle passed through your hands. You must go on the stand and testify against him.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses,
- […] marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garotted.
- around 1900, O. Henry, According to Their Lights
- (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Translations
Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag