the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle or the whole kit and caboodle.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Crowd; pack; lot; company: used only with whole: as, the whole caboodle (that is, the whole number, crowd, or quantity).
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n. any collection in its entirety
Word Usage
"He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives."