| 单词 | boodle game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboodle game General attributive (chiefly in sense 3b), as boodle alderman, boodle bag, boodle game, etc. ΚΠ 1870 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 28 May He palmed off..a quantity of blank paper for counterfeit money..which he termed the ‘boodle’ game. 1887 Nation (N.Y.) 14 Apr. 307/3 New York is better known all over the..world for boodle Aldermen and municipal rings than for anything else. 1893 House Jrnl. Legislature Nebraska: 23rd Session 382 He had a chance to handle some of the boodle money, to influence votes. 1929 M. Levin Reporter 253 Two Bandits Captured... One Escapes With $10,000 Boodle-Bag. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential 175 He aligned himself with the pink boodle wing of the Democratic party. 1974 R. A. Caro Power Broker vi. xxxiii. 724 The banker quickly became..one of the most notorious boodle boys around town. 2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Sept. (Central ed.) b7/3 Some public officials, including some from the citizens committee, or ‘boodle board’, as it was nicknamed, funneled donations into their own pockets. < as lemmas |
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