booger

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (8)  · 
“
Every time you get an eye booger, its going to be trumpeted by the right-wing hate sites.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. noun A bogeyman.
  2. noun Slang Dried nasal mucus.
  3. noun Slang An item that is unnamed or unnameable: "It's . . . like a pop-top . . . one of those sharp little boogers you pull off the beer cans” (Hunter S. Thompson).
2 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • During the games (we can't be sure how this part got started), they began a competition of 'booger-smearage on the window by the bed. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • It's the easiest way to keep your child from being a booger-eating moron.
  • : Whenever I get a really big booger, I feed it to the dog. —  Overheard in New York
  • I used to call him sugar booger, but he was pretty much having no part of that one. —  Pajiba
  • Dan felt disgusted because he was on the backyard couches the other day and had this gooey booger-like stuff that got caught in his armpit hair. —  BuddyTV
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 125 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

phlegm · ribbon-like · unsympathetic · slatternly · occur

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten