Sentence examples for boodle from inspiring English sources
noun
Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
In the 1899 elections, the "boodle" legislators who had voted for Yerkes were defeated, and the law was repealed.
With a certain Flaubertian sheepishness, Styron repeatedly admitted that his latest boodle was "a record" or very near: the Book of the Month Club and movie sales for "Nat Turner" ($150,000 and $600,000 respectively), the paperback sale of "Sophie's Choice" ($1,575,000) and so on.
Somehow, this terrorism case, stacked between matters of Mafia murder and political boodle, is not so terrifyingly expensive.
Horse thieves doubled as distributors until special carriers arose to deliver packages of counterfeits (called "boodle").
When Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton moved out of Pennsylvania Avenue last month with a hefty boodle of gifts, they were widely criticized.
Sadly, I expect that when the word boodle is revised, it will lose its definition of "a stupid noodle".
Readers wanting more detail will have to "boodle-am shake" their way to the local library.
Bertolt Brecht's "On the Enjoyment of Gin" (translated by Eric Bentley) sounds anything but joyful: Down in pea-green fuddle-muddle Sits a carcass with a boodle-bottle Of pea-green gin.
Sit a carcass with a boodle-bottle And a weak heart within.
It might be the Botanist or Boodles or Bluecoat or Death's Door; the tonic might be Fever-Tree, Q, Fentimans, White Rock or Schweppes.
On the day in 2011 that the political consultant Hank Morris was led off in handcuffs to prison for mind-boggling boodling, he turned to friends in the courtroom.
