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# boogie

«boogie» in Mova's school dictionary: **To dance to fast pop music, especially in a fun…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (boogie, boogies, boogied, boogieing); noun (a boogie, boogies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) To dance to fast pop music, especially in a fun, energetic way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#m1)

2) (noun) A dance, or a style of fast blues piano music (boogie-woogie). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#m2)

3) (informal) To move fast or leave: «we need to boogie». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and at school discos, children «boogie on down». In music lessons, boogie-woogie is a 1930s-40s piano style. A boogie board is a short surfboard you lie on. «Bogey» (nose) is a different word.

### examples

- Let's boogie at the school disco! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x1)
- Grandpa boogied in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x2)
- She plays boogie-woogie on the piano. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x3)
- We rented boogie boards at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x4)
- It's late – we need to boogie! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x5)
- The whole class got up to boogie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/#x6)

### note

Spelling: boogieing (keep the «e»). Informal. Do not confuse with «bogey/booger» (snot) or «bogeyman».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boogie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boogie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.