boodling

… In the matter of bribing and boodling, the Chinese official in Formosa could give points to the most accomplished office-seekers and money-grabbers in Washington or Ottawa.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

In today's environment, Agnew's boodling would have been unearthed in three days.

Jeralyn Merritt is comparing Sarah Palin to McGovern's disastrous selection, Thomas Eagleton. Ann Althouse 2008

The techniques of boodling were little-known and regarded with a certain awe by the mid - nineteenth-century public.

The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

He did five years in prison, got out, and was still boodling at the age of seventy - four.

The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

Banks, plagued by boodling, gave up hope of police help and hired private security men instead.

The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

Witherspoon is a gangster, a cheat, and a God damn liar, but he is of very little actual importance; merely a boodling nincompoop.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Brannan, or McGowan, or all the rest of the boodling, land-grabbing, pettifogging crew!

The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

If the voter is a boodler, he will countenance boodling.

A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900

Happy birthday, boodle, and many thanks to the boodlers who have done so much amazing boodling over the years.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011

Am dashing about to get ready, so boodling and backboodling will have to wait.

Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010