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boondoggle

UK /ˈbuːndɒɡl̩/US /ˈbundɑɡəl/

noun 4
verb 1
forms 3

noun4

•
(US, Canada) A waste of time or money; a pointless activity.
- Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.
•
A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.
- By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not. — 2005
•
(slang) A non-work trip away from a research station.
- A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons. — 2024
A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.

verb1

•
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

forms

boondoggled · boondoggling · boondoggles

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