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.
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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.