Boomdoggle Edit Meaning

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boom·dog·gle -noun

(BOOM!-doggle)

Pronounced: boom-dog-uhl

1. robbing Peter to pay Paul blows up in your face!

2. to rob or attempt to deceive the public: to boomdoggle home buyers into buying "over their budget" by offering low interest rates and no money down.

Can throwing large amounts of federal money at public works projects jump-start our economy and lead to prosperity or only result in an expensive and wasteful boomdoggle.

See boondoggle, betrayal, blarney, cheat, cunning, deceit, dirt, disinformation, duplicity, flimflam, fraud, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, juggling, lying, mendacity, pretense, snow job, treason, trickery, trumpery