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Past tense of boogie

regular verb

The past tense of boogie is boogied. The past participle is also boogied.

Forms of boogie

Base form (V1)boogie /ˈbuː.ɡi/
Past tense (V2)boogied
Past participle (V3)boogied
Present participleboogying
Third person singularboogies

Boogied in a sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • There I was in the middle of the night boogying down the avenue and suddenly there was a cow and he boogied right over and there was yellow cake everywhere.1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and…. From the entry boogy

Meaning of boogie

  1. noun A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
  2. noun A style of swing dance.
  3. noun Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.

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Questions about the past tense of boogie

What is the past tense of boogie?
The past tense of boogie is boogied.
What is the past participle of boogie?
The past participle of boogie is boogied.
Is boogie a regular or irregular verb?
Boogie is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boogie (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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