boogie

plural boogies

1. USinformalA piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

   Synonyms: booger, bogie

plural boogies

1. informalA style of swing dance.
2. informalAny relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.

   Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!

3. informalhobbiesA large, organised skydiving event.
4. ethnicoffensiveslangslurA black person.

   1 more example

   in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

   1966, Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66

present singular third person boogies · participle present boogying · participle present boogieing · participle past boogied · past boogied

1. intransitiveTo dance a boogie.

   Don't you know I wanna boogie with you / Hey, I wanna boogie with you / Down on the corner

   1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells

   1 more example

   Mr. Nichols said that with permits, equipment storage fees and other expenses, it costs the association about $7,000 for a season of boogieing.

   2007 May 28, Tim Murphy, “A Little Older and a Bit Creakier, Skaters Boogie on in Central Park”, in New York Times

2. broadlyintransitiveTo dance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance.

   Synonyms: get down

3. informalintransitiveTo move, walk, leave, exit.

   Let's boogie on out of here.

   3 more examples

   Again, the entire line stopped, and again, by the time I got there the enemy had boogied, having accomplished their mission: to delay and harass us

   1999, Thom Nicholson, 15 Months with SOG: A Warrior's Tour, page 75

   The waiter boogied back with the drinks and did a little shimmy before he boogied off.

   2007, Blaize Clement, Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, page 69

   Once in a while just coming upon a tilted snowbank in the midst of a feeding area is enough to send a band boogieing away downhill.

   2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 149