boodles

noun

plural of boodle
1
as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together

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2
as in bribes
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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  1. groups
  2. bribes
  3. batches
  4. groupings
  5. lots
  6. clusters
  7. bands
Noun
  • Nine of the 10 largest individual and family donors in CNBC’s overall top 20 groups are Republican-aligned, accounting for 86 cents of every dollar contributed by the top 10, according to CNBC’s analysis of FEC records.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Though professional society guidelines recommended against performing this biopsy on women 70 or older with early-stage cancer, other groups had reported that it was still being done.
    — Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of groups
Noun
  • Some of the contracts appear to have been padded to pay bribes to Diamantis.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • These scandals, which included massive bribes and kickbacks on projects across the continent, contributed to a political crisis that, in 2016, ended Dilma Rousseff’s presidency and, in 2018, sent Lula to prison.
    — MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of bribes
Noun
  • Food safety officials swept into the kitchen, scrutinizing the tandoori ovens and expiration dates on batches of butter.
    — Zishaan a Latif, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Zhou timed what happened between batches, and found that, during a six-hour changeover, only one hour was useful.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of batches
Noun
  • In public health, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stressed the need for the continent to manufacture its own vaccines, and to do so in regional groupings.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • My groupings range from sterling silver flatware to matchbooks, but my most prized grouping is my trove of fine art.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of groupings
Noun
  • This was a three-day decision with lots and lots of heartache.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Kevin Oglesby of the Black Hammock pointed out that Pappy’s Patch land could today be developed with 17 homes with five acre lots under the county’s code.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of lots
Noun
  • The trajectories separated into four distinct clusters corresponding to rest, meditation, music, and the movie.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The company also has an edge on its peers because of its ability to improve the performance of GPU clusters, which should give its stock an additional boost, per Mohan.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of clusters
Noun
  • Dennis and Rosa encounter all sorts of people, from feuding Take That tribute bands to Irish bachelorettes, comedians and bingo enthusiasts.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Isaias’ bands could drench Florida’s Panhandle and Big Bend with as much as 15 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
    — Robin Webb, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of bands
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“Boodles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boodles. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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