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(informal) A style of swing dance.
(informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have aboogie!
(skydiving, informal) A large, organisedskydiving event.
(slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- 1966,Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66‎^[1]:
  in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees,Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

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A style of dance

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boogie (third-person singular simple presentboogies,present participleboogyingorboogieing,simple past and past participleboogied)

(intransitive) Todance a boogie.
- 1979,Lou Reed, “I Want to Boogie With You”, inThe Bells:
  Don't you know I wannaboogie with you / Hey, I wannaboogie with you / Down on the corner
- 2007 May 28, Tim Murphy, “A Little Older and a Bit Creakier, Skaters Boogie on in Central Park”, inNew York Times‎^[2]:
  Mr. Nichols said that with permits, equipment storage fees and other expenses, it costs the association about $7,000 for a season ofboogieing.
(intransitive, loosely) Todance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance.
Synonym:get down
(intransitive, informal) Tomove,walk,leave,exit.
Let'sboogie on out of here.
- 1999, Thom Nicholson,15 Months with SOG: A Warrior's Tour, page75:
  Again, the entire line stopped, and again, by the time I got there the enemy hadboogied, having accomplished their mission: to delay and harass us
- 2007, Blaize Clement,Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, page69:
  The waiterboogied back with the drinks and did a little shimmy before heboogied off.
- 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick,A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page149:
  Once in a while just coming upon a tilted snowbank in the midst of a feeding area is enough to send a bandboogieing away downhill.