boodle

/ˈbudl/

Other forms: boodles

Definitions of boodle

1. noun

   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
   synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops

   type of:

   card game, cards

   a game played with playing cards
2. noun

   informal terms for money
   synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

   type of:

   money

   the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender