BOODLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does boodle mean? • BOODLE (noun)
The noun BOODLE has 2 senses:
1. informal terms for money
2. 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
Familiarity information: BOODLE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BOODLE (noun)
Meaning:
Informal terms for money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
lolly; lucre; moolah; pelf; shekels; simoleons; lettuce; kale; gelt; boodle; wampum; clams; dinero; loot; bread; dough; cabbage; scratch; sugar
Hypernyms ("boodle" is a kind of...):
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
stops; boodle; Chicago; Newmarket; Michigan
Hypernyms ("boodle" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
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