kit and caboodle

1. 1.

   everything available; usually preceded by `the'

   “we saw the whole shebang”

   “a hotdog with the works”

   “we took on the whole caboodle”

   “for $10 you get the full treatment”

   Synonymswhole shebangwhole kit and caboodlewhole kit and boodlekit and boodlewhole kitwhole caboodlewhole worksworksfull treatment

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Questions about kit and caboodle

What does kit and caboodle mean?

kit and caboodle means "everything available; usually preceded by `the'".

What is another word for kit and caboodle?

Close synonyms include whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kit and caboodle a common word?

kit and caboodle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.