boodle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: boodle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for boodle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boodle n informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 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 Synonym(s): Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boodle \Boo"dle\, n. [Origin uncertain.] 1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] --Bartlett. 2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]