boodle
booh duhl
- n informal terms for money
- n 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
- For most of the world's bassos, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is operatic boodle, and they will go to considerable lengths to sing it in public.
- Not all this boodle can have come from people who agree with his populist-lefty agenda.
- The traveler is handed an envelope containing the boodle: as much as $500 in French francs.