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boogie

/ˈbuː.ɡi//ˈbʊ.ɡi/

boogie noun: a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

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

Verb

boogie (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying or boogieing, simple past and past participle boogied)

  1. (intransitive) To dance a boogie.
    • Don't you know I wanna boogie with you / Hey, I wanna boogie with you / Down on the corner1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells
    • 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. (broadly, intransitive) To dance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance.
    Synonyms:
    get down
  3. (informal, intransitive) To move, walk, leave, exit.
    • Let's boogie on out of here.
    • 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 us1999, Thom Nicholson, 15 Months with SOG: A Warrior's Tour, page 75

boogie meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

boogie in Hindi

बूगी, बूगी करना

boogie in Marathi

बूगी, बूगी करण्यासाठी

boogie in Bengali

বুগি, বুগি করা, বুগি করতে

boogie in Telugu

బూగీ, బూగి, బూగీకి
More languagesFewer languages
boogie in Malayalam
ബൂഗി, ബൂഗീ, ബൂഗിക്ക്
boogie in Kannada
ಬೂಗಿ, ಬೂಗೀ, ಬೂಗಿಗೆ
boogie in Punjabi
ਬੂਗੀ, ਬੂਗੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
boogie in Gujarati
બૂગી
boogie in Odia
ବୁଗି, ବୁଗୀ, ବୂଗି
boogie in Nepali
बूगी, बुगी, बुगी गर्न

Examples of boogie in a sentence

  • 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:

All 18 example sentences with boogie

Synonyms of boogie

Forms of boogie

Noun
pluralboogies
Verb
third-person singular presentboogies
present participleboogying
present participleboogieing
past participleboogied
pastboogied

Past tense of boogie: boogied

Origin of boogie

French bouger means to move as in a dance move.

Words formed from boogie

Phrases with boogie

Words that rhyme with boogie

Questions about boogie

What does boogie mean?
Boogie means a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
What is boogie in Hindi?
Boogie in Hindi is बूगी, बूगी करना. See Boogie meaning in Hindi.
How do you use boogie in a sentence?
The waiter boogied back with the drinks and did a little shimmy before he boogied off.
What part of speech is boogie?
Boogie can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce boogie?
Boogie is pronounced /ˈbuː.ɡi/ (UK).
What is the plural of boogie?
The plural of boogie is boogies.

Words near boogie in the dictionary

  1. boogeyman
  2. boogeymen
  3. boogeys
  4. Booghdee
  5. Booghdees
  6. boogie
  7. boogie board
  8. boogie boards
  9. boogie down
  10. boogie on down
  11. boogie-board

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boogie (page history and authors); boogie (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); boogie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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