boodle

Plural: boodles

Noun

• informal terms for money
• 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
• Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
• The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
• Candy and snacks.

Verb

Verb Forms: boodled, boodling, boodles

• To engage in bribery or illicit dealings, especially for money.
• To engage in bribery.

Examples

• He tried to boodle his way to victory by subtly peeking at tiles, but was caught.

Synonyms

bread, cabbage, Chicago, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, Michigan, moolah, Newmarket, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, stops, sugar, wampum, black money See Thesaurus:booty, dirty money, kit and caboodle, money

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