boodle
/bood-l/US // ˈbud l //UK // (ˈbuːdəl) slang //
兜兜转转,兜售,兜兜糖,兜兜转转的
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n.名词 noun
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- : the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- : a large quantity of something, especially money: He's worth a boodle.
- : a bribe or other illicit payment, especially to or from a politician; graft.
- : stolen goods; loot; booty; swag.
v.无主动词 verb
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boo·dled, boo·dling.
- : to obtain money dishonestly, as by bribery or swindling.
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Examples
It really ain't safe for such pilgrims t' be cavortin' over the prairies with all that boodle in their jeans.
Samoa and the Samoans for children (letters to Miss Boodle on), xxv.
The idlers at "Boodle's" can neither sneer at a "msalliance," nor hint at the "faiblesse" of an "elderly gentleman."
I'm the real thing—a good old Cotton-Petticoat—birth, breeding and boodle.
But it had like to have cost the nursery-maid (a Swiss girl that Fitz-Boodle hired somewhere in his travels) her place.
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