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Definition of Boodler
1. Noun. (slang baseball dated 19th C) one displaying unsportsmanlike behavior ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boodler
1. one that boodles [n -S] - See also: boodles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boodler
Literary usage of Boodler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... Republic, Post-Dispatch, Star and Chronicle, and said articles by declaring
directly and by inuendo that defendant was the Boss boodler Chapman in his ..."
2. Municipal Public Works: Their Inception, Construction and Management by Samuel Whinery (1903)
"... contractors divisible into three classes — The honest and responsible contractor —
The irresponsible and unreliable contractor—The "boodler" — Awarding ..."
3. The Monthly Law Digest and Reporter: Containing a Complete Digest of All the (1892)
""There is a more significant point yet which entitles Mr. Marchand to be tailed
the first boodler in Quebec. In the cause célèbre of the Gowan farm and ..."
4. If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All who Love in the by William Thomas Stead (1894)
"I might, no doubt, as you say, convict one boodler, possibly two. ... A boodler
never forgives a man who has shown up a brother boodler. i You cannot expect ..."
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