Hypertext Webster Gateway: "boodle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boodle \Boo"dle\, n. [Origin uncertain.]
1. The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
2. Money given in payment for votes or political influence;
bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
boodle
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 [syn: {Michigan}, {Chicago}, {Newmarket}, {stops}]
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