boodling
English edit
Verb edit
boodling
- present participle and gerund of boodle
Noun edit
boodling (countable and uncountable, plural boodlings)
- (US, informal, dated) political corruption involving money; bribery
- 2009 April 22, Jim Dwyer, “When the City Held Pirates in High Regard”, in New York Times[1]:
- “This boodling was worth a hundred thousand pounds a year to the city,” they wrote.