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Boodle (Noun)

Meaning 1

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.

Classification

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

Synonyms

  • Newmarket
  • Chicago
  • Michigan
  • Stops

Hypernyms

  • Card Game
  • Cards

Meaning 2

Informal terms for money.

Classification

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.

Examples

  • The crook tried to swindle his victim out of a large boodle in the get-rich-quick scheme.
  • She stumbled upon a hidden boodle in her grandfather's attic and was set for life.
  • The thieves made off with a big boodle in the daring jewelry store heist.
  • The young musician had to scrape together a meager boodle to record her first album.
  • After years of working multiple jobs, he finally gathered a sizeable boodle to buy his dream house.

Synonyms

  • Gelt
  • Lettuce
  • Scratch
  • Sugar
  • Bread
  • Simoleons
  • Moolah
  • Pelf
  • Dinero
  • Dough
  • Lolly
  • Lucre
  • Loot
  • Wampum
  • Cabbage
  • Shekels
  • Clams
  • Kale
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