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Definition of Kit and boodle
1. Noun. Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'. "For $10 you get the full treatment"
Generic synonyms: Entireness, Entirety, Integrality, Totality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kit And Boodle
Literary usage of Kit and boodle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Sam Slick, Human Nature, p. 131. Kit. A man's baggage. Kit and Boodle. " The whole
kit and boodle " of any thing means the whole. See Boodle. ..."
2. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"... of you," ie " the whole kit and boodle of you." See Bartlett, sv kit and
boodle [and Murray, sv boodle; ..."
3. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"“Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if
some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight ..."
4. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"Then one of the chiefs will make a speech in which he presents you with the whole
kit and boodle. But you don't have to take them ..."
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