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boodle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boodle \Boo"dle\, n. [Origin uncertain.]
The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.]
--Bartlett.Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, "crowd;" 1858, "phony money," especially "graft money," actual or potential (1883), both American English slang, either or both based on bundle, or from Dutch boedel "property."
Wiktionary
n. 1 money, ''especially'' when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. 2 (context US dialect English) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
WordNet
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 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 [syn: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, stops]
Wikipedia
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.
In a different context, "boodle jails" were jails in the United States, predominantly during the nineteenth century, in which a tramp or hobo could make an illicit arrangement with a law enforcement officer to stay in the jail without being an actual prisoner. For example, between 1893 and 1899, the Welsh tramp-poet W. H. Davies took advantage of this corrupt system in order to pass the winter in Michigan, staying a series of different jails. Here, with his fellow tramps, Davies would enjoy the relative comfort of "card-playing, singing, smoking, reading, relating experiences and occasionally taking exercise or going out for a walk."
Boodle is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in August 1934. This was the thirteenth book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and the second short story collection featuring the character. The title is taken from the British slang term " boodle" meaning bribery, stolen goods or loot (it is also a term frequently used by Templar). When first published in the United States by The Crime Club, the unfamiliar-sounding title was changed to The Saint Intervenes, and this title was later applied to future UK editions.
As with the earlier collection, The Brighter Buccaneer, Boodle consists of stories written by Charteris under contract with the UK magazine Empire News during 1933. One story, "The Man Who Liked Toys", was first published in The American Magazine as a non-Saint story featuring a lead character named Kestry; Charteris later revised the story to include the Saint.
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.