boodle

/ˈbudl/
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Other forms: boodles

Definitions of boodle
  1. noun
    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; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
    synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops
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    type of:
    card game, cards
    a game played with playing cards
  2. noun
    informal term for money
    synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
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    type of:
    money
    the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
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