Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, slang, uncountable)Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.

    ворованные деньги

  2. (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable)The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

  3. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)Candy and snacks.

More definitions
  • 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 their 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

Translations

3 languages
Русский
Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag:

Origin

From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle (dialectal term meaning building or house).

From Dutch boedel. Doublet of bottle (dialectal term meaning building or house).

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Forms

plural: boodles
Singularboodle
Pluralboodles

regular

Synonyms

87 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • informal terms for money:breadcabbageclamsdinerodoughgeltkalelettuce
  • 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 their 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:MichiganChicagoNewmarketstops

Word family

2 related words

See also

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