BOODLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boodle mean? 

• BOODLE (noun)
  The noun BOODLE has 2 senses:

1. informal terms for money

2. 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

  Familiarity information: BOODLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOODLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Hypernyms ("boodle" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops

Hypernyms ("boodle" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

 Context examples 

The boodle. The reward. The £500.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)