caboodle

caboodle
/keuh boohd"l/, n. Informal.
1. the lot, pack, or crowd: I have no use for the whole caboodle.
2. kit and caboodle. See kit1 (def. 8).
[1840-50, Amer.; perh. CA- + BOODLE]

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