whole kit and kaboodle
whole kit and kaboodle is the alternative form of kit and caboodle.
Meaning of kit and caboodle
Noun
kit and caboodle
- Everything entirely, the whole lot.
- “[…]There′ll be a kit and caboodle of our people waiting to set out."1930, Kenneth Roberts, Arundel, published 1995, page 153
- Synonyms:
- all the marbles, bag and baggage, everytang, everything but the galley stove, everything but the kitchen sink, everything under the sun, full monty, hook, line and sinker, lock
Questions about whole kit and kaboodle
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- Whole kit and kaboodle is the alternative form of kit and caboodle.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: whole kit and kaboodle (page history and authors); kit and caboodle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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