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- verb   Present participle of boogie .
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Examples
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								The central female in "Dingbat Disco" 1982 — boogieing down, her face distorted between frontal and profile views — looks skinned to the bloody bone. Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire Lance Esplund 2011 
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								And then in a blink, she and pretty much everyone else at the table was back up boogieing on the red dance floor. Hitting the Dance Floor Marshall Heyman 2012 
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								Raju, the lead guitarist of The Subterranean Vajra Hammer, was dishing out Keith Richard licks, note for note, to the boogieing young Tibetans, inji hippies and travelers , when, somewhere during a set, the lead singer Dave Tomory cleared his throat and made that unhappy announcement . Jamyang Norbu: Remembering John Lennon at Dharamshala Jamyang Norbu 2010 
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								Although it was clear from her boogieing ways on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she's a music fan, DeGeneres had no official role in the industry and had never played a role in creating music. Ellen DeGeneres creates record company, eleveneleven, to promote music talent 2010 
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								Raju, the lead guitarist of The Subterranean Vajra Hammer, was dishing out Keith Richard licks, note for note, to the boogieing young Tibetans, inji hippies and travelers , when, somewhere during a set, the lead singer Dave Tomory cleared his throat and made that unhappy announcement . Jamyang Norbu: Remembering John Lennon at Dharamshala Jamyang Norbu 2010 
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								Raju, the lead guitarist of The Subterranean Vajra Hammer, was dishing out Keith Richard licks, note for note, to the boogieing young Tibetans, inji hippies and travelers , when, somewhere during a set, the lead singer Dave Tomory cleared his throat and made that unhappy announcement . Jamyang Norbu: Remembering John Lennon at Dharamshala Jamyang Norbu 2010 
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								"He had a smile on his face, and he was boogieing while he was singing," recalls head chef Bobby Middaugh. Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative 2010 
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								While the rest of the country was boogieing to big band music or jumping and jiving in jazz halls, country music lovers could square dance - which was so last century - but that was about it, until Western swing. 
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								"He had a smile on his face, and he was boogieing while he was singing," recalls head chef Bobby Middaugh. Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli: The rise of the confounding conservative 2010 
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								While the rest of the country was boogieing to big band music or jumping and jiving in jazz halls, country music lovers could square dance - which was so last century - but that was about it, until Western swing. 
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