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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boogie
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boogie board
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dance fans can boogie at Club Oasis and Paradise Beach.
▪ I've got to boogie - see you later.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the end of the day, who cares if they're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough?
▪ From sultry crooners to hillbilly boogie, Case's voice always sounds at home in her material.
▪ Southern-fried boogie rock at its finest.
▪ There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders.
▪ You work hard all week, you're entitled to a boogie now and then.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boogie

boogie \boogie\ n.

  1. (Music) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

    Syn: boogie-woogie.

  2. a black person; -- offensive and disparaging. [slang]

boogie

boogie \boog"ie\ (b[oo^]"g[=e]), v. i. to do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boogie

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.

Wiktionary
boogie

alt. 1 (context informal English) A piece of solid or semi-solid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity; booger. 2 (context informal English) dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks. 3 (context skydiving informal English) A large, organised skydiving event. n. 1 (context informal English) A piece of solid or semi-solid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity; booger. 2 (context informal English) dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks. 3 (context skydiving informal English) A large, organised skydiving event. vb. (context intransitive English) To dance a boogie.

WordNet
boogie

n. an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) [syn: boogie-woogie]

Wikipedia
Boogie

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. The earliest recorded boogie-woogie song was in 1916. By the 1930s, Swing bands such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Louis Jordan all had boogie hits. By the 1950s, boogie became incorporated into the emerging rockabilly and rock and roll styles. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s country bands released country boogies. Today, the term "boogie" usually refers to dancing to pop, disco, or rock music.

Boogie (video game)

Boogie is a music video game developed by Electronic Arts for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS. Being touted as a party-game, it enables players to create their character, then use the Wii Remote and a microphone to sing and dance through it. Each song within the game can be performed either as a karaoke or as a dancing game. The game is based around an alien theme. It was one of the first games released in Brazil for the Wii. Although anticipation was high for the game, it received negative reviews.

The game was followed by a sequel, Boogie Superstar, in 2008.

Boogie (disambiguation)

Boogie is a musical technique or rhythm.

Boogie may also refer to:

Boogie (2009 film)

Boogie is a 2009 3D Argentinian Flash-animated action- thriller film, based on the Argentine character Boogie, the oily by Roberto Fontanarrosa, and directed by Gustavo Cova. The voices of main characters Boogie and Marcia were performed by Pablo Echarri and Nancy Dupláa. It was the first 3D animated movie made in Argentina and Latin America.

Boogie (genre)

Boogie (sometimes called post-disco) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s. The sound of boogie defined by bridging acoustic and electronic musical instruments with emphasis on vocals and miscellaneous effects later evolved into electro and house music.

Boogie (2008 film)

Boogie is a 2008 Romanian film written and directed by Radu Muntean.

Boogie (album)

Boogie is a compilation album of both previously released and unreleased tracks by the American band The Jackson 5. It was released after the release of the Jacksons studio album Destiny in 1979. Boogie is considered the rarest of all Jackson 5 or Jacksons releases, as not many albums were pressed and fewer were sold at the time.

Boogie (photographer)

Boogie (born Vladimir Milivojevich in 1969) is a photographer from Serbia, based in Brooklyn, New York.

He is known for his documentary and portrait photographs of people on the margins of society. His work has been featured by the New York Times, Time magazine, Huffington Post, Huck magazine and HBO (for the show How To Make It In America).

Boogie (rapper)

Boogie is an American rapper, from Compton, California. His debut mixtape, Thirst 48, was released on June 24, 2014, followed by his next mixtape, The Reach which was released a year later.

Usage examples of "boogie".

They would use the kids as hostages and boogie to the border in that big flashy Jaguar with the helicopters broadcasting every moment of the trip on live TV.

Some had nothing on them but bits of shaving soap, but there were wet snots and big boogies in some of the others, he could smell their enticing aroma even now.

The steel door closes behind him and he hears the piano become a pie-anny as schmaltz transmogrifies to boogie.

She sees him as the spokesmodel for Crane Surf and Boogie Boards when they launch here in the States.

Leave the saucer hidden and boogie for a week or so, giving Egg and Olie time to litigate?

She pulled on the shirt, then with a quick glance at the door to make certain she was alone, did a fast, hip-shaking boogie to the AutoChef for another hit of coffee.

Lying between the sheets, or propped at my side during long and anxious journeys in the Fiasco, or seated across the table in the deep lees of high-tab dinners, Selina has frequently refreshed me with tales of insult and violation from her childhood and teenage years a musk-breathing, toffee-offering sicko on the common, the toolshed interrogations of sweat-soaked parkies, some lumbering retard in the alley or the lane, right up to the narcissist photographers and priapic prop-boys who used to cruise her at work, and now the scowling punks, soccer trogs and bus-stop boogies malevolently lining the streets and more or less constantly pinching her ass or flicking her tits and generally making no bones about the things they need to do.

I love the way it feels against my skin, the way it envelops me in another medium when I’m diving, the loving yet ferocious force with which it tumbles me end over end when I wipe out while boogie boarding or bodysurfing.

Even the rooftop sentinels are boogieing, they have to boogie, using their AK-47s like jugglers' poles to keep their balance.

They get in your way so you kick them vindictively off the bed and get down again, boogieing so hard I can't believe you haven't flown off the bed yet.

But even as she was being acclaimed, and as Cathy was out boogieing with Renee Poetschka in Atlanta's nightspots, back in the condo the backroom boffins, Bideau and Plant, were making their plans against La Magnifique.

He looks up the dj's roost, far above the bobbing, boogieing crowd on the dance floor.

We've knocked out half a dozen of their swamp boogies, but we'll lose four ranches in the next hour.

A cackly song, jist one note over and over, swing low, swing low, he sings, a band o'darklin boogies jest a-comin after me.

The _Daily News_ showed photos: Central Avenue swarmed by placard-waving boogies, the house Exley bought Inez Soto.