Past tense of boodle; to obtain money through bribery or corruption, or to move about in a disorganized crowd.
From the noun 'boodle,' the past tense formed by adding '-ed.' Used in American English since the mid-1800s.
When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner wrote 'The Gilded Age' in 1873, they exposed politicians 'boodling' and created a scandal that made the word famous overnight.
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