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Meanings of boodle in English

Portuguese
massa
Catalan
quartos
Spanish
pasta

Informal terms for money.

      massa

      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.

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            Profits from burglary, looting and raids.

                  Usage of boodle in English
                  1
                  Still, boodle does not map out all the social metes and bounds.
                  The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
                  2
                  We had to have that paper of his to find the boodle.
                  Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
                  3
                  Hand 'em back the boodle; and maybe they'll let you off light.
                  Cabbages and Kings
                  4
                  Meanwhile, Bunny, I may call upon you to dispose of the boodle.
                  Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
                  5
                  The aristocracies of birth and boodle are sham counterfeits gotten up by man.
                  Dollars and Sense
                  6
                  What do they spell but brag and blow and boodle in box-car letters?
                  The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
                  7
                  You look as well as any of them, and you've got the boodle.
                  The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
                  8
                  I'll bag this boodle ag'in and we'll hit the trail for higher timber.
                  Whirligigs
                  9
                  They've boodle enough for all their charities, and for the shorn lambs, too.
                  Everyman's Land
                  10
                  He told me that, in his opinion, boodle was at the bottom of it.
                  Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
                  11
                  The aristocracy of boodle is the slimmest aristocracy of all.
                  Dollars and Sense
                  12
                  Now, Shorty, all we gotta do is collect the boodle.
                  The City of Fire
                  13
                  His share of the boodle passed through your hands.
                  The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
                  14
                  The measure of a man is his brain and not his birth or his boodle.
                  Dollars and Sense
                  15
                  Some of them were bankrupting their own boodle-bag husbands.
                  We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
                  16
                  He didn't want to be seen taking the boodle from the express company at Tucson.
                  Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
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                  Spanish
                  pasta
                  Boodle through the time
                  Boodle across language varieties
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