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boodle
noun- profits appropriated quietly, and usually illegally US, 1858
- Tom (“Sailor”) Burke had been the sheriff’s “bag man,” had delivered $36,000 in payoff money to the sheriff’s wife, and had gotten signed receipts for the boodle. — Time, p. 18, 24 July 1950
- Of the boodle with which she had skipped St. Louis, she still had several thousand dollars, plus, of course, such readily negotiable items as her car, jewellery, and furs. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 87, 1963
- Sister Heavenly reckoned that Gus was carrying the boodle on him. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 48, 1966
- We gotta go and score for decent bennys and bread to make up a playing boodle. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 5, 1979
- All the same, I just trousered the boodle. — Viv Stanshall, Ginger Geezer, 1981
- a fake bankroll used in confidence swindles US
- — M. Allen Henderson, How Con Games Work, p. 218, 1985
- a package of snacks US, 1900
- Those with friends or family in the military are sure to find the online Gift Shop an easy way to send “boodle,” as soldiers often refer to much-anticipated packages from home. — PR Newswire, 17 June 2003
- a capsule of poison disguised as a capsule of heroin US
- And the best way to “waste” a stoolie was to make him a conspirator in his own murder, by dropping a “boodle.” — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 15, 1968
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