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boondoggled

boondoggled is the simple past and past participle of boondoggle.

Meaning of boondoggle

Verb

boondoggle (third-person singular simple present boondoggles, present participle boondoggling, simple past and past participle boondoggled)

  1. (intransitive) To waste time on a pointless activity.
    • These days the astronaut job title has been split into two categories. (Three, counting payload specialist, the category into which teachers, boondoggling senators, and junketing Saudi princes fall.)2010, Mary Roach, “He's Smart But His Birds Are Sloppy: Japan Picks an Astronaut”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 28

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Questions about boondoggled

What is boondoggled the simple past and past participle of?
Boondoggled is the simple past and past participle of boondoggle.

Words near boondoggled in the dictionary

  1. boondocker
  2. boondockers
  3. boondocking
  4. boondocks
  5. boondoggle
  6. boondoggled
  7. boondoggler
  8. boondogglers
  9. boondoggles
  10. boondoggling
  11. boondy

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