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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Dutch boedel estate, lot, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old Norse b?th booth Date: 1833 1. a collection or lot of persons ; caboodle 2. a. bribe money b. a large amount especially of money

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. sl. money, esp. when gained or used dishonestly, e.g. as a bribe. Etymology: Du. boedel possessions

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Foolish Dictionary

Money, born of poor, but dishonest parents, and taken in by the Graft family.

Moby Thesaurus

beat, bilk, blackmail, blunt, bomb, booty, brass, bread, bribe, bribe money, bucks, bundle, cabbage, campaign contribution, campaign fund, chips, chisel, chouse, cozen, defraud, diddle, dinero, do, dough, flimflam, gelt, gilt, graft, gratification, gratuity, grease, green, green stuff, haul, hot goods, hush money, jack, kale, loot, mazuma, mint, moolah, mopus, nepotism, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, packet, payoff, payola, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, plunder, pork barrel, pot, prize, protection, public till, public tit, public trough, rhino, rocks, roll, shekels, simoleons, slush fund, sop, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoils system, spondulics, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, sugar, swag, take, the needful, till, tin, wad, wampum