boodle

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From Dutch boedel.

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  • IPA: /'bu:dəl/

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Singular
boodle

Plural
uncountable

boodle (uncountable)

  1. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses,
      [] marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garotted.

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