boogie
verbEtymology French bouger means to move as in a dance move.
1
To dance a boogie.
- Don't you know I wanna boogie with you / Hey, I wanna boogie with you / Down on the corner1979, Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, in The Bells:
- Mr. 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:
2
Broadly To dance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance.
3
Informal To 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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- Once in a while just coming upon a tilted snowbank in the midst of a feeding area is enough to send a band boogieing away downhill.2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 149:
- Derived terms
- boogie down, boogie on down