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booga

booga is the alternative form of booger.

Meaning of booger

Noun (1)

booger (plural boogers)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
    • Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief.1948, Publication of the American Dialect Society, page 16
    Synonyms:
    bogey, snot, bogie, boogie
  2. (US, slang) Something suggestive of this material.
    • The latter is discovered by Caesar, Maurice, and their compadres living in a crumbling, snow-packed ski lodge, its antler chandeliers hung with boogers of ice in a mockery of humanity’s pretensions of alpha-predator-hood.2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetskyg, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club
  3. (US, slang) A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
    Synonyms:
    bugger
  4. (US) A monster, a bogey.

Noun (2)

booger (plural boogers)

  1. (derogatory, mildly, slang) A bodyboarder.
    • Watch the local boogers charge it!

Noun (3)

booger (plural boogers)

  1. A performer of the booger dance.

Forms of booga

pluralboogas

Phrases with booga

Questions about booga

What is booga the alternative form of?
Booga is the alternative form of booger.

Words near booga in the dictionary

  1. boofriend
  2. boofriends
  3. boofs
  4. boofy
  5. boog
  6. booga
  7. booga hag
  8. booga hags
  9. boogalee
  10. boogalees
  11. boogaloo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: booga (page history and authors); booger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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