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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
  1. 1
    • : 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
  1. 1

    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.