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boodle |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: boodle n : 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}, {stops}]
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