Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To dance to rock music.
- v. To get going; leave: We're late; let's boogie.
- v. To move quickly: boogied down the road in their car.
- n. Strongly rhythmic rock music.
- n. Boogie-woogie.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A piece of solid or semi-solid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity; booger.
- n. informal Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks.
- n. skydiving, informal A large, organised skydiving event.
- v. intransitive To dance a boogie.
- v. intransitive, informal To move, walk, leave, exit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Music) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).
- n. slang a black person; -- offensive and disparaging.
- v. to do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.
WordNet 3.0
- v. dance to boogie music
- n. an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
Etymologies
- From boogie-woogie. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(Soundbite of music) ROBERTS: The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll states that the term boogie derives from the jazz-based boogie-woogie, a piano style that featured a hot rhythm based on eight to the bar figures played with the left hand.”
“The title boogie "Rock a While" propels one onto the dance floor from the first notes - Alan Hagar burns it up on guitar on this one.”
“(Soundbite of music) MILES: In the '60s and' 70s, Toussaint made a series of good but uneven albums that included a lot of what he calls boogie-ing and woogie-ing.”
“(Soundbite of music) Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger (ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson.”
“The word boogie has been consistently used for so many other meanings during my lifetime that the racial slur aspect of the word is basically archaic.”
“Research has been created a tool called boogie which is intended as a layer on which to build program verifiers for other languages.”
“It followed up with an album of what can only be characterized as boogie rock and disbanded in 1998.”
“Oog" is also the middle section of "boogie" - a fact that Driessen noticed only in retrospect, but does enjoy.”
“Maybe it's because of my age I'm 38 but it never occurred to me that the word "boogie" had any racial connotation at all, much less that it was an epithet.”
“The 'No One Knows' band's guitarist, Troy Van Leeuwen, is presently in the studio with the group and says the new sound the band have come up with will make fans want to "boogie".”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘boogie’.
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Loanwords
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-og- words
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Tweets
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