Synonyms and Antonyms of boodle
1
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
- a boodle of teenagers boarded the bus together
array, band, batch, battery, body, bunch, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, group, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel
assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organization
circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, set
faction, guild (also gild), order, school, sect
brigade, crew, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, task force, team
alliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, union
battalion, squadron
bevy, brood, covey
2
a very large amount of money
- we saved a boodle by buying a house that's off the beaten path
big bucks, bomb [British], bundle, earth, fortune, king's ransom, megabucks, mint, packet [chiefly British], pile, wad
heap, pot
bonanza, mine, treasure trove
assets, capital, means, property, riches, wealth, wherewithal
bread [slang], cash, chips, currency, dough, gold, jack [slang], legal tender, lucre, pelf, tender, wampum
3
something given or promised in order to improperly influence a person's conduct or decision
- an IRS agent was caught accepting some boodle from people she was auditing
baksheesh, kickback, payoff
slush fund
incentive, incitement, instigation, motivation, provocation, spur, stimulation, stimulus
boost, encouragement, goad, inducement
allurement, bait, enticement, lure, seduction, temptation, turn-on
flattery, persuasion
decoy, snare, trap
