Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who accepts or acquires boodle; one who sells his vote or influence for a bribe, or acquires money fraudulently from the public.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, baseball, dated, 19th C one displaying
unsportsmanlike behavior
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Examples
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I'm sure every boodler saw that headline, "Abbas flies home to violent opposition," and had the same thought, which is: They weren't THAT awful of a band, even if "Dancing Queen" is pretty atrocious.
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Which politician was the boodler and which the reformer?
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Which politician was the boodler and which the reformer?
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Which politician was the boodler and which the reformer?
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Mr. Candidate, it's been reported that you're a boodler.
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If the alleged boodler commented, the comment was a fair way to bootstrap the allegation into other news outlets.
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The man was a stiff, a hackocrat, and a boodler...a friend of the boyz in the back room.
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Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.
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Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.
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It's because you are a fair fighter and not a boodler that we want you at the head of the street department now.
TSurine commented on the word boodler
When I tried to share this on Facebook, the definition is something about unsportsman like behaviour...what is up?
February 13, 2013
erinmckean commented on the word boodler
Thanks for the heads-up -- can you let me know what link you're trying to share? This one, or the wordnik.com/word-of-the-day link?
February 13, 2013