boodle

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[edit] Etymology

From Dutch boedel.

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• IPA: /'bu:dəl/

[edit] Noun

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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