From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Boodle \Boo"dle\, n. [Origin uncertain.]
1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
[1913 Webster]
2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence;
bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]
[1913 Webster] Boogeyman
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boodle
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: {boodle}, {bread},
{cabbage}, {clams}, {dinero}, {dough}, {gelt}, {kale},
{lettuce}, {lolly}, {lucre}, {loot}, {moolah}, {pelf},
{scratch}, {shekels}, {simoleons}, {sugar}, {wampum}]
2: 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 [syn: {Michigan},
{Chicago}, {Newmarket}, {boodle}, {stops}]
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