boogie

noun

1. (US, informal)A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.
2. (informal)A style of swing dance.
3. (informal)Any relatively energetic dance to pop or rock music.

   “Come on girls, let's get on the dancefloor and have a boogie!”

4. (informal)A large, organised skydiving event.
5. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)A black person.

   “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”

verb

1. (intransitive)To dance a boogie.

   “Don't you know I wanna boogie with you / Hey, I wanna boogie with you / Down on the corner”

   “Mr. Nichols said that with permits, equipment storage fees and other expenses, it costs the association about $7,000 for a season of boogieing.”

2. (broadly, intransitive)To dance, especially a vigorous, nightclub-type dance.
3. (informal, intransitive)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 us”

   “The waiter boogied back with the drinks and did a little shimmy before he boogied off.”

   “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.”