boodle
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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
First off, I don’t like buying stocks at $500 a share even if they hold a boodle of cash on their balance sheet.
From Forbes ● Sep. 17, 2013
As Bob Murphy, the departed Mets play-by-play man might say, here’s the sad recap: The Wilpons entrusted massive piles of their boodle to Bernie Madoff, a great guy they would have trusted with their lives.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2012
There wasn’t one happy face ’mongst the whole boodle of’em and all their ’tention was pointed in the di-rection of the car we was in.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Three years ago, when Dwight Green was governor, the boodling pols still waxed fat in the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
