1
: a collection or lot of persons : caboodle
2
a
: bribe money
b
: a large amount especially of money
Examples of boodle in a Sentence
a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together
we saved a boodle by buying a house that's off the beaten path
Recent Examples on the Web
In Manila, Rosenthal feasts on pork sisig, shares a roadside meal with Jeepney drivers and encounters his first boodle fight on a tour of Filipino cuisine.
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Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
There are more critical elections and bigger prizes on which that boodle is better spent.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
Big Labor’s coffers, where the boodle has been put to use for preferred Democrat candidates and liberal referenda.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 July 2022
His boodle took him to a pole barn on the edges of town, where his brother Ray was having a wedding reception.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
Some of the boodle is going to people who are barely farmers at all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
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Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
There are more critical elections and bigger prizes on which that boodle is better spent.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
Big Labor’s coffers, where the boodle has been put to use for preferred Democrat candidates and liberal referenda.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 July 2022
His boodle took him to a pole barn on the edges of town, where his brother Ray was having a wedding reception.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
Some of the boodle is going to people who are barely farmers at all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
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“Boodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boodle. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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