boogey

Noun (1)

boogie (plural boogies)

1. (US, informal) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

   Synonyms:

   booger, bogie

Noun (2)

boogie (plural boogies)

1. (informal) A style of swing dance.
2. (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
   • Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!
3. (informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
4. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A black person.
   • 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...1966, Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66

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Noun

bogey (plural bogeys)

1. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.

   Synonyms:

   goblin

2. (archaic, capitalized, often, usually, with-definite-article) The Devil.

   Synonyms:

   Azazel, devil, demon, imp

3. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
   • If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 54
4. (UK, slang) A police officer.
5. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
6. An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
   • He stood on the sand near the gravel road that passed within two miles of the site of the disintegrated bogey, binoculars hanging on a leather strap from his neck, face streaming with sweat under the brim of his hat... Army and government trucks passed along the road every few minutes, some bearing...1987, Greg Bear, “Lacrimosa Dies Illa!”, in The Forge of God (science fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83

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