boodle
pronunciation
How to pronounce boodle in British English:
UK [bu:dl]
How to pronounce boodle in American English:
US [budl]
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- Noun:
- informal terms for money
- 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
Word Origin
- boodle (n.)
- 1833, "crowd;" 1858, "phony money," especially "graft money," actual or potential (1883), both American English slang, either or both based on bundle, or from Dutch boedel "property."
Example
- 1. We found a boodle of ants under the tree .
- 2. Hall of jilin province irrigation works holds processing business to boodle special meeting .
- 3. Alternative title the main reasons and countermeasure of the spread to business boodle author .
- 4. Asset-securitization usually means to a new financing method to issue bond which take a boodle of assets with lack of fluidity but stable cash earnings as the foundation assets through the action of structure recombine and credit update .