choogle

present singular third person choogles · participle present choogling · participle past choogled · past choogled

1. intransitiveslangTo have a good time.

   So, choogle on, baby, and choogle on down the highway, man.

   1993, James Franklin Harris, Philosophy at 33 1/3 rpm: themes of classic rock music, page 176

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   The swimming hole is about 75 yards wide and averages 10 feet in depth, ample space for a swimmer to splash and choogle.

   1985 June, Joe Nick Patoski, “Last One In!”, in Texas Monthly, volume 13, number 6, page 227

   The two categories come together in "Down on the Corner," which is about poor boys who choogle.

   2000, Robert Christgau, Any Old Way You Choose it: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967-1973, →ISBN

   He was sitting on the wall with his friends. 'Hey Pat, man! Choogle on over, yeah?' he cried.

   2001, Patrick McCabe, Emerald Germs of Ireland, →ISBN

   “You're all invited. Born to choogle,” he adds, because they kick the tune off with riffs from Creedence Clearwater Revival's premier chooglin' extravaganza, “Born on the Bayou.”

   2011, Greil Marcus, The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, →ISBN

plural choogles

1. entertainmentA funky musical romp.

   Their sound was a collision of glam rock strut, Stooges thuggery, and pub rock choogle.

   2013, Chris Handyside, Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes, →ISBN, page 85

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   Hawkins was the king of the choogle, a southern guitarist from Louisiana who played with the down home swamp funk sound that characterized his greatest hit, the 1957 smash "Suzie Q," a tremendous inspiration on bayou rocker John Fogerty, who used it to get Creedence Clearwater Revival their first hit in the 70's.

   1980, Ronald Zalkind, Contemporary Music Almanac, page 234

   Highlights include the voodoo-choogle swamp rock of It's A Cold Night For Alligators and the driving, bubbling groove of Sputnik, driven along by Jeff Sutton's disco-tight, Clem Burke-like drumming, which Billy Miller claims is Roky's answer song to Joe Meek's Telstar.

   2015, Ben Graham, A Gathering of Promises, →ISBN

   In fact, it might be a stretch to call R.E.O. Speedwagon prog at all, if they didn't temper the riverboat-pianoed bonfire-in-the-woods choogle of their first two albums with occasional outrageously ambitious, amp-cranking, Hammond-pumping gloom monsters that, like sundry early Kansas/ Head East / Styx tracks, seemed to owe more than a bit to the majestic post-psychedelic organ-metal funderals of the UK's Uriah Heep.

   2016, Chuck Eddy, Terminated for Reasons of Taste, →ISBN