Usually means: Dance energetically to funky music.
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  1. boogie: Merriam-Webster
  2. boogie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boogie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boogie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boogie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boogie, boogie: Wordnik
  7. boogie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boogie: Wiktionary
  9. boogie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boogie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boogie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boogie: Dictionary.com
  13. boogie (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Boogie (album), Boogie (disambiguation), Boogie (genre), Boogie (photographer), Boogie (rapper), Boogie (upcoming film), Boogie (video game), Boogie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. boogie: Rhymezone
  16. boogie: FreeDictionary.org
  17. boogie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. boogie: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. boogie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. boogie: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. boogie: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boogie (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. boogie: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Boogie: 1960's Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boogie: Skydiving Glossary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See boogeyed as well.)

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noun:  (informal, US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
noun:  (informal) A style of swing dance.
noun:  (informal) Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.
noun:  (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.
noun:  (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
verb:  (intransitive) To dance a boogie.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To move, walk, leave, exit.

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