1
as in grouping
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together
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2
as in fortune
a very large amount of money
we saved a boodle by buying a house that's off the beaten path
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as in bribe
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision
an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing
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Recent Examples of boodle
In Manila, Rosenthal feasts on pork sisig, shares a roadside meal with Jeepney drivers and encounters his first boodle fight on a tour of Filipino cuisine.
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Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
There are more critical elections and bigger prizes on which that boodle is better spent.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
Big Labor’s coffers, where the boodle has been put to use for preferred Democrat candidates and liberal referenda.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 July 2022
His boodle took him to a pole barn on the edges of town, where his brother Ray was having a wedding reception.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
Some of the boodle is going to people who are barely farmers at all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
There are more critical elections and bigger prizes on which that boodle is better spent.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
Big Labor’s coffers, where the boodle has been put to use for preferred Democrat candidates and liberal referenda.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 12 July 2022
His boodle took him to a pole barn on the edges of town, where his brother Ray was having a wedding reception.
—John Carlisle, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2020
Some of the boodle is going to people who are barely farmers at all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boodle
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The student center features comfortable leather furniture – easier to clean up spills – arranged in groupings so students could chat with each other, perhaps study together, perhaps even just take a nap.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2026
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On the 265th pitch of their April 17 game, when the Baltimore Orioles needed some late-inning fortune, Leody Taveras tapped his helmet.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Many expected those fortunes to change when Steve Cohen, now worth approximately $23 billion, bought the team in 2020 with an appetite to turn it into a winner.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Netanyahu is charged with breach of trust, fraud and accepting bribes in three separate cases accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy associates.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The casual acknowledgement of brushing off offers of bribes alarmed some Republican activists, who will endorse a candidate for governor at their state convention on May 16.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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At one point, my friend was added to a WeChat group that included nearly five hundred foreign actors, many of whom were sharing casting calls to make sure they weren’t being scammed.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Vikings could target him as an undrafted signing to bolster a defensive backs group that should look far different when the draft concludes.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Unfortunately, there’s no telling when the legacy bundle will stop shedding customers.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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As cord-cutting has shrunk the pay-TV bundle from 100 million homes about a decade ago to 60 million-plus today, cable and satellite operators have been overhauling their strategies.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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The committee does not explain the reasoning behinds its rulings – the season’s fourth and final batch of rulings were made today – but despite her prominence in the revival’s marketing campaign her role as the wife of Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman apparently was deemed a supporting character.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Make a batch of beans during a weekly meal prep to enjoy them all week.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
29 Apr. 2026
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Once the drone was hit by another drone, the soldiers walked over to retrieve both drones and added them to the pile of drones damaged in earlier training sessions.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Or a big pile of unclaimed brassieres?—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2026
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Buy a bunch and bring them to share.—
Connie Ogle
April 30,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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There is a tedium, however, to scrolling through a bunch of stuff that isn’t real, that maybe isn’t even pretending to be real, all for the sake of lying for no reason.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Boodle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boodle. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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