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caboodle definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" [syn: bunch, lot, caboodle]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably from ca- (intensive prefix) + boodle Date: circa 1848 collection, lot <sell the whole caboodle>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Phrases and idioms: the whole caboodle sl. the whole lot (of persons or things). Etymology: 19th c. US: perh. f. phr. kit and boodle

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Caboodle Ca*boo"dle, n. The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] --Bartlett.