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boog⋅ie

  [boog-ee, boo-gee] noun, verb, -ied, -ie⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black.
2. boogie-woogie.
3. a lively form of rock 'n' roll, based on the blues.
–verb (used without object)
4. to dance energetically, esp. to rock music.
5. Slang. (often fol. by on down) to go.
Origin:
1920–25, Americanism; of uncert. orig.

boog⋅ie-woog⋅ie

  [boog-ee-woog-ee, boo-gee-woo-gee]
–noun Jazz.
a form of instrumental blues, esp. for piano, using melodic variations over a constantly repeated bass figure.
Also called boogie.

Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; rhyming compound perh. based on boogie
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boog·ie   (bŏŏg'ē, bōō'gē)   
intr.v.   boog·ied, boog·y·ing, boog·ies

  1. To dance to rock music.

    1. To get going; leave: We're late; let's boogie.

    2. To move quickly: boogied down the road in their car.

n.  

  1. Strongly rhythmic rock music.

  2. Boogie-woogie.


[From boogie-woogie.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
boogie [ˈbugi] or [ˈbʊgi]

  1. n.
    a kind of rock dance. : I didn't like the boogie until I learned how to do it right.
  2. in.
    to dance rock-style. : I'm too old to boogie.
  3. n.
    a party where the boogieis danced. : There's a boogie over at Steve's tonight.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

boogie  (v.)
originally "dance to boogie music," a late 1960s style of rock music (based on blues chords), from earlier boogie, a style of blues (1941), short for boogie-woogie (1928), a reduplication of boogie, 1917, which meant "rent party" in Amer.Eng. slang.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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