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boodle
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Boodle is a slang term for money derived from the Dutch word 'boedel' meaning property or estate. Afrikaans inherited the word and its meaning from the Dutch, which probably accounts for its widespread use for money amongst English-speaking South Africans. ...
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n. informal terms for money [syn: bread , cabbage , clams , dinero , dough , gelt , kale , lettuce , lolly , lucre , loot , moolah , pelf , scratch , shekels , simoleons , sugar , wampum ] a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king ...
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n. 1 money, ''especially'' when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. 2 (context US dialect English) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
Usage examples of boodle.
Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies.
And yet, if the boodle and etceteral appurtenances thereof and howsoever were not in the bedroom, they must be in the studysome blistered whereabouts or what not.
The only thing I was a little worried about was whether you meant to really let me do the job myself, and hijack the boodle afterwards.
It was one thing to get the boodle, another to get to where it could be spent.
Sawatzki had soon appointed squad leader, should have taken the whole kit and boodle including boots and harness to Tiegenhof, where they were just organizing a new SA sturm, which was short on funds.
Did a lovely job of bombing my office to destroy the evidence-after my own boodle was safely out and packed for boarding, of course.
As for personal munitionsthere were hardly enough in the boodle to supply a brief firefight.
And there was something on the Tropic of Capricorn more attractive than an expendable toy-boy: the Gas Company of Sao Paolo and other state assets, boodle worth one hundred billion dollars which British and American companies believed was rightly theirs, despite Brazilian resistance.
He was figuring on splitting half, plus the bankroller's cut, and that made it a boodle worth going after.
Banks, plagued by boodling, gave up hope of police help and hired private security men instead.
He did five years in prison, got out, and was still boodling at the age of seventy-four.
Banks, plagued by boodling, gave up hope of police help and hired private security men instead.
He did five years in prison, got out, and was still boodling at the age of seventy-four.
Riding in the Ford with Parker was thirty thousand dollars in green paper, and until he'd found a safe place for that boodle he couldn't afford to do anything else.
Dalby strode across to him in a paternal way, and led him to the table like guest night at Boodles.