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How to use boogie in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Boogie means a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity. Example: “Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!”

Examples of boogie by meaning

nounAny relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.

  • Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!

verbTo dance a boogie.

  • 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

verbTo 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
  • 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

More sentences with boogie

  • We were boogieing from midnight until three o’clock in the morning.From the entry -ing
  • It being your unbirthday then you must be invited to boogie at the bank unholiday.2015, Douglas Gilbert, Alice In Wunderkinderland With a Hedgehog, →ISBN. From the entry unholiday
  • I paddle board, boogie board, and I use a monofin when I swim.2012 July 27, Maria Denardo, “Rockefeller's Center”, in The Daily Dan. From the entry merteen
  • Within a year of his release, he'd OD'd on the full-tilt boogie.2007, Alafair Burke, Dead Connection, Macmillan, page 203. From the entry full tilt boogie
  • "Out of sight!" praised a suave and youthful mack daddy, boogying under the glittery flashing lights.2003, Ashaki Boelter, Distant Lover: All-4-Love Series 1 of 3, page 1. From the entry mack daddy
  • You're the best driver in the family.” “Let's boogie.”2024 April 14, Kit Boss, “A Chug's Life Adventure” (9:36 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 10, spoken by Dirtrude…. From the entry Vanhattan
  • Are they boogying and do they know how?' asks Johnny.2017, Jed Pitman, The Invisible Man. From the entry boogy
  • Recently my three little boys were having a postdinner, prebath boogie party—spastically break-dancing in their underwear and diapers.2011, Susan Besze Wallace, Monica Reed, The New Mom's Guide to Life with Baby, page 196. From the entry spastically
  • He knew they were. boogying the beer.2011, Christopher Ransom, The People Next Door. From the entry boogy
  • “Here,” said The Grunt, “have the boogies back.2010, tracey Corderoy, The Grunt and the Grouch: Beastly Feast, Capstone, published 2012, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry weretroll
  • I had to go full-tilt boogie, or I'd suck.2006, Mike Zimmerman, Men's Health; Succeed Like This Joker, Rodale, Inc., page 166. From the entry full tilt boogie
  • On the dance floor, people are having it large: hands in the air, whooping and yelling, boogieing in a sweaty drug fueled mass.2006, Bill Sanders, Drugs, Clubs And Young People: Sociological and Public Health Perspectives, page xi. From the entry have it large
  • Suddenly, a rhythmic shaking and rattling overtook the room, shoogling and shimmying the structure in time to the acid jazz stomp riverboat boogie shuffle beat of the song.2005, Neil Keir Henderson, An English Summer in Scotland and Other Unlikely Events, page 225. From the entry shoogle

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 boogie in a sentence

How do you use boogie in a sentence?
Boogie is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!”
What is a short sentence with boogie?
“Let's boogie on out of here.”
What does boogie mean?
Boogie means a piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

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