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Definition of boodle in English: boodlenounˈbuːd(ə)lˈbudl mass nouninformal Money, especially that gained or spent illegally or improperly. 〈非正式〉(尤指非法得来的或花费不当的)钱 he spent $30 million of his own boodle trying to buy a Senate seat Example sentencesExamples - ‘I've got enough boodle to carry us a bit,’ he said, ‘but not if you're bent on painting the town.’
- But the extra boodle appears to have made no difference to how content we are.
- Yet when the logic self-destructed in practice, conservatives were remarkably content, since they had delivered the boodle to the right clients.
- And there's nothing like the prospect of boodle to get people under the same umbrella.
- Also, that Turner prize is worth a lot of boodle and the other competitors don't seem particularly impressive.
- Every year she brings in more boodle, far exceeding the targets set by the council.
- Notwithstanding, when the grant kicked in in 1998, the boodle was cut in half and the capital improvement component disappeared.
- Pre-election federal spending announcements are so lucrative that one strains to think up ways to get some of the boodle directed toward native communities.
- I should be sorry to have any boodle about me with that man in the house.
- These are sometimes called the pay cards or boodle cards.
- Famished for power and perks, they pour out of the law schools and the centers for the study of this and that to cop the boodle when their side wins.
- And there's really not much of a difference between them in terms of boodle.
- Yet he still needs mucho boodle to pay for his wars, and for the corporate welfare he doles out by the barge-load to his friends and family.
- His pronouncements will inspire a lobbying contest among the upscale interests to see who can extract the most boodle from the Treasury.
- Another brainless action idol thriller rakes the box office markers into the drawer, tallies up the boodle and announces the dawn of a new era of starmaking.
Synonyms cash, hard cash, ready money
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting a pack or crowd): from Dutch boedel, boel 'possessions, disorderly mass'. Compare with caboodle. Rhymescaboodle, canoodle, doodle, feudal, noodle, poodle, strudel, udal Definition of boodle in US English: boodlenounˈbudlˈbo͞odl informal Money, especially that gained or spent illegally or improperly. 〈非正式〉(尤指非法得来的或花费不当的)钱 he spent $30 million of his own boodle trying to buy a Senate seat Example sentencesExamples - Another brainless action idol thriller rakes the box office markers into the drawer, tallies up the boodle and announces the dawn of a new era of starmaking.
- Also, that Turner prize is worth a lot of boodle and the other competitors don't seem particularly impressive.
- And there's nothing like the prospect of boodle to get people under the same umbrella.
- Every year she brings in more boodle, far exceeding the targets set by the council.
- But the extra boodle appears to have made no difference to how content we are.
- Notwithstanding, when the grant kicked in in 1998, the boodle was cut in half and the capital improvement component disappeared.
- Yet when the logic self-destructed in practice, conservatives were remarkably content, since they had delivered the boodle to the right clients.
- Famished for power and perks, they pour out of the law schools and the centers for the study of this and that to cop the boodle when their side wins.
- These are sometimes called the pay cards or boodle cards.
- I should be sorry to have any boodle about me with that man in the house.
- Pre-election federal spending announcements are so lucrative that one strains to think up ways to get some of the boodle directed toward native communities.
- His pronouncements will inspire a lobbying contest among the upscale interests to see who can extract the most boodle from the Treasury.
- Yet he still needs mucho boodle to pay for his wars, and for the corporate welfare he doles out by the barge-load to his friends and family.
- ‘I've got enough boodle to carry us a bit,’ he said, ‘but not if you're bent on painting the town.’
- And there's really not much of a difference between them in terms of boodle.
Synonyms cash, hard cash, ready money
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting a pack or crowd): from Dutch boedel, boel ‘possessions, disorderly mass’. Compare with caboodle. |