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choogle

choogle verb: to have a good time.

Verb

choogle (third-person singular simple present choogles, present participle choogling, simple past and past participle choogled)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To have a good time.
    • 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
    • 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

Noun

choogle (plural choogles)

  1. A funky musical romp.
    • 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...1980, Ronald Zalkind, Contemporary Music Almanac, page 234
    • 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

Examples of choogle in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Forms of choogle

Verb
third-person singular presentchoogles
present participlechoogling
past participlechoogled
pastchoogled
Noun
pluralchoogles

Origin of choogle

Coined by John Fogerty of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Questions about choogle

What does choogle mean?
Choogle means to have a good time.
How do you use choogle in a sentence?
The two categories come together in "Down on the Corner," which is about poor boys who choogle.
What part of speech is choogle?
Choogle can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of choogle?
The past tense of choogle is choogled.

Words near choogle in the dictionary

  1. choofed
  2. choofer
  3. choofers
  4. choofing
  5. choofs
  6. choogle
  7. choogled
  8. choogles
  9. choogling
  10. chook
  11. chook chaser

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