boodle

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boodle (BOOD-l) - n., slang, (Brit.) money or valuables, esp. stolen or counterfeit money, or used as a bribe; (U.S.) a large quantity of something, such as money, the lot, a pack, a crowd.


Sometimes used as short for caboodle, as in kit and caboodle, all of a collection of things. The U.S. and British usages given above are not strict demarcations, but tendencies. All senses are ultimately derived from Dutch boedel, property -- in American English, the crowd sense appeared first (1833), followed by phony money (1858), and graft money (1880s).

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