caboodle
Other forms: caboodles
A caboodle is a complete group or collection of something. Your eccentric aunt might send you her doll collection, enclosing a note that says, "I gave you the whole caboodle!"
Caboodle is an informal way to talk about an entire bunch of some item or category, frequently within the phrase "the whole kit and caboodle," which has the same meaning. You might say you love everything about movies — the whole caboodle — or buy all the ice cream from your neighborhood shop, the entire caboodle. The root of caboodle is probably the older phrase "kit and boodle," and the Dutch boedel, "property."
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any collection in its entirety“she bought the whole caboodle”type of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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Vocabulary lists containing caboodle
Young Eben, who lives in a small farming community, longs to experience the wonders of the world. But can he discover seven "wonders" in his own hometown, Sassafras Springs?
When 14-year-old Jay Berry Lee learned that there was a big reward for the return of the monkeys he and his hound Rowdy had discovered in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma, he was determined to catch them and win the reward for his family. He learned a lot about monkeys that summer, but it was the greater lessons about life and family that mattered the most.