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boodle

[bood-l] / ˈbud l /




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It costs $8.95, quite a boodle for some mashed-up fruit.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2018

So, please, don’t fall for our starry, smoggy skies and our bottomless cache of boodle and Botox.

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2017

Prime Minister Razak, Najid, is rotten as twenty day squid; he puts away boodle like warm apple strudel, and operates like Cap'n Kidd.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016

My apperceptive mass goes back 50 years when I was the bird-dog for Jack Kaplan, then worth over $100 million and denoted as a big boodle for a sole operator.

From Forbes ● Mar. 30, 2015

That would be quite a nice boodle to put in their knapsacks if they were using knapsacks instead of instrument cases.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

The Orient Express works well as a tourist charter, but this chichi choochoo, as one Chicago paper tagged it, will need business people, lobbyists and boodling politicians to fill its regular runs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oetje John Rogge was able to turn this boodling into a Federal offense by showing that banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans cleared the checks by mail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three years ago, when Dwight Green was governor, the boodling pols still waxed fat in the land.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the voter is a boodler, he will countenance boodling.

From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland

The techniques of boodling were little-known and regarded with a certain awe by the mid-nineteenth-century public.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling




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