Usually means: Waste of time and money.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word boondoggle:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. boondoggle: Merriam-Webster
  2. boondoggle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boondoggle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boondoggle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boondoggle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boondoggle, boondoggle: Wordnik
  7. boondoggle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boondoggle: Wiktionary
  9. boondoggle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boondoggle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boondoggle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boondoggle: Dictionary.com
  13. boondoggle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boondoggle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Boondoggle (EP), Boondoggle (disambiguation), Boondoggle (project), Boondoggle (web series), Boondoggle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. boondoggle: Rhymezone
  17. boondoggle: FreeDictionary.org
  18. boondoggle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Boondoggle: The Word Detective
  20. boondoggle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Boondoggle: World Wide Words
  22. boondoggle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. boondoggle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boondoggle: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boondoggle, boondoggle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Boondoggle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See boondoggled as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (especially scouting) A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US, figuratively, usually politics) A waste of time and/or money; a pointless activity.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To waste time on a pointless activity.

Similar:
woggle, necker, neckerchief, bindle, neckring, circingle, becket, neck ring, collar, bobbin, more...

Opposite:
productive, efficient, useful, worthwhile

Types:
waste, fraud, corruption, embezzlement, mismanagement, more...

Adjectives:
gigantic, biggest, expensive, bureaucratic, political, dollar, great, costly, giant, economic, huge
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Similar:
woggle, necker, neckerchief, bindle, neckring, circingle, becket, neck ring, collar, bobbin, more...

Opposite:
productive, efficient, useful, worthwhile

Types:
waste, fraud, corruption, embezzlement, mismanagement, more...

Adjectives:
gigantic, biggest, expensive, bureaucratic, political, dollar, great, costly, giant, economic, huge



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