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1
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
- a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together
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2
a very large amount of money
- we saved a boodle by buying a house that's off the beaten path
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3
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision
- an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing
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- backhander
- [British],
- bribe,
- cumshaw,
- fix,
- sop
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The first known use of boodle was in 1625
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