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boogie verb- to dance, especially with abandon US, 1947
- He could hear the hi-fi going next door, Lesley boogying around the apartment to the Bee-Gees, ignoring her aunt, who was a little deaf. — Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, p. 58, 1980
- And I’m boogieing away when I clock some undercover Old Bill [police] watching me. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 195, 2000
- to go, especially in a hurry US
- If you were lonely you could always boogie on down to the Vietnam Day Committee house and find somebody to talk to. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 37, 1970
- Let’s boogie. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- Gazing into the mirror he used an actor’s trick and conjured images of middle-aged sociopaths: Fat Tony Salerno, Saddam Hussein, Ted Kennedy. Nothing worked. The killer had boogied. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 2, 1993
- to have sex US, 1960
- — The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 11 March 1979
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 235, 1994
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