boodle
/'bu:bl/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A gambling card game: A specific type of card game where players bet chips on certain high-ranking cards from a separate deck and play sequences of cards from a single suit.
- Informal term for money: A slang word for a large amount of money, often implying it is gained or used in a corrupt, illicit, or political context, such as a slush fund or bribe money.
Examples
Noun (Card Game):
- They spent the evening playing boodle in the back room.
- The rules of boodle are quite complex for new players.
Noun (Money):
- The corrupt official was caught with a suitcase full of boodle.
- The campaign was funded by political boodle from unknown sources.
Advanced Usage
- "The whole boodle": An informal phrase meaning "the entire lot" or "the whole group," often used to refer to people or things collectively.
- When the police arrived, they arrested the whole boodle.
Variants and Related Words
- Slush fund: A reserve of money used for illicit or corrupt purposes, closely related to the "money" sense of .
- Kitty: In gambling, the pool of money bet by players, which is a related concept in card games.
Synonyms
- For money: Loot, dough, cash, funds (informal).
- For a group: Bunch, gang, crew.
Related Idioms
- While not a phrasal verb, the phrase "the whole boodle" functions as a fixed informal idiom.
- He didn't just take one cookie; he took the whole boodle!
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
- informal terms for money