boodle

• Maybe if we reintroduce snollygoster we'll be able to recapture some of the nineteenth century's freewheeling, no-holds-bar attitude to political discourse and those Sunday morning talk shows will suddenly gain some linguistic sizzle.Find more nineteenth-century political terms, like mugwump, boodle, and pork barrel, on the Vintage Vocabulary main site.
• Lawyers take note: boodle was actually a respectable word in its own right (meaning "estate") in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was even used in legal documents. —  The Word Detective
• Heavily invested in stocks, market plunges may have cost him a third of that boodle - Slim's corporations comprise about a third of those that trade on the Mexican Stock Exchange. —  CounterPunch
• Spring is in the air, and the thoughts of sports commissioners has turned to shaking down state and local governments for arena boodle: —  Field of Schemes
• An' the boodle--the loot--the swag that the greasy skunk stole from your cabin last night, it's all fixed up right an' tight in Laramie Bank CHAPTER XXIII EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION Good--very good," said Kiddie. —  Kiddie the Scout

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