caboodle
noun/kəˈbuːdl/
/kəˈbuːdl/
Word Originmid 19th cent. (originally US): perhaps from the phrase kit and boodle, in the same sense (from kit and boodle ‘money gained or spent illegally or improperly’).
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See caboodle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe whole (kit and) caboodle
- (informal) everything
- I had new clothes, a new hairstyle—the whole caboodle.
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