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Definition of Boodle
1. Noun. Informal terms for money.
Generic synonyms: Money
Derivative terms: Cabbage
2. Noun. 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.
Definition of Boodle
1. n. The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
Definition of Boodle
1. Noun. Money, ''especially'' when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boodle
1. to take bribes [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boodle
Literary usage of Boodle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1904)
"And boodle, being so seised, afterwards, to wit, on the 16th of February, 1841,
duly made and published his last will and testament in writing, bearing, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"boodle and Three Others. May 1. This court will not entertain an ... In this
action the defendants severed in pleading—boodle and Norcutt pleading together, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Charles James Gale, Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Henry Davison, Court of King's Bench, Great Britain (1843)
"boodle and Wife. Tuesday April 26/A. for a libel. Plea: not guilty. At the trial
before In answer to Lord Denman CJ, at Westminster, at the sittings after ..."
4. The Struggle for Self-government: Being an Attempt to Trace American by Lincoln Steffens (1906)
"No wonder Chicago, with council-reform and boodle beaten, found itself a Minneapolis
of police and administrative graft! No wonder Pittsburg, when it broke ..."
5. Uncle Walt [Walt Mason] the Poet Philosopher by Walt Mason (1910)
"... then you'll get a lot of pleasure from the life you're leading here; there
are better things than boodle in this little whirling sphere. ..."
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