BOODLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Synonyms:

boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("boodle" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)