boogieing









boogieing


noun

  1. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
  2. boogie-woogie.
  3. a lively form of rock ‘n’ roll, based on the blues.

verb (used without object), boog·ied, boog·ie·ing.

  1. to dance energetically, especially to rock music.
  2. Slang. (often followed by on down) to go.

verb -gies, -gieing or -gied (intr)

  1. to dance to pop music
  2. to make love

noun

  1. a session of dancing to pop music
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, also as a verb), short for boogie-woogie (1928), a reduplication of boogie (1917), which meant “rent party” in American English slang. A song title, “That Syncopated Boogie-boo,” appears in a copyright listing from 1912.

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