All right, it’s time to boogie. Cool it!
The whistle blew. Time to boogie. 5. and
boogern. a piece of nasal mucus. (Usu-
ally objectionable.) That’s no way to
take care of a booger! Is that a boogie on
your lip, or what? 6. in. to leave. Come
on, man. Let’s boogie. Time to boogie.
It’s late. 7. n. a tumor. (Medical slang. See
also guber.) Looks like a little boogie
down in the lung. I’ve got to take out
three boogies before lunch and look at x-
rays all afternoon. 8. in. to copulate; to
have sex. (Usually objectionable.) Let’s
go boogie.boogie-board[“bugibord or “bUgibord] 1.
n. a surfboard. (California.) Get your
boogie-board out there in that tube. She
cracked her boogie-board apart on that big
one. 2. n. a skateboard. (Teens.) He fell
off his boogie-board and broke his tail-
bone. Can you imagine a boogie-board
costing 600 dollars?
boogie down (to somewhere)in. to
hurry (to somewhere); to go (some-
where). So, why don’t you boogie down
to the store and load up with bud and
berries for the weekend? I’m gonna boo-
gie down and see what’s going on.
boogieman[“bugimAn or “bUgimAn] n. an
imaginary man who is said to frighten
people; a false threat of any kind. Don’t
turn me into a boogieman. Spank the child
yourself. The press has made the secre-
tary into some sort of boogieman.
book 1. in. to leave. Time’s up. Gotta
book. Let’s book. I’m late. 2. tv. to
charge someone with a crime. The cop
booked him for vagrancy. She looked
sort of scroungy, and they wanted to book
her for something, but didn’t know what.
- in. to study. (See also book it.) I
gotta book. Bye. I hate to book all night.
bookien. a bookmaker for betting.
Frank was a bookie till he got into drugs.
My bookie wants his money on the spot.
book ittv. to study hard; to spend a pe-
riod of time studying. (Collegiate.) I
am so tired of booking it every night of my
life. I’ve got to spend the rest of the night
booking it.
boomin. to listen to music, as with a boom
box. You don’t do anything but hang
around and boom all day! If you’re go-
ing to boom all the time, why don’t you
get some headphones?
boom boxn. a portable stereo radio. (See
also box, thunderbox.) Tu r n d o w n t h a t
damn boom box, or I’ll kick it in. Hey,
man! You even gonna take your boom box
to church, or what?
boomer 1. n. a laborer who moves from
one economic boom to another. Fred’s
great uncle was a boomer in the days of the
Oklahoma oil rush. Most of the old
boomers settled down and raised families.- Go to (baby) boomer.
boom sticksn. drumsticks. (Musicians.)
He always carries his boom sticks in his
back pocket, and he beats on walls, radia-
tors, desks—you name it. I need new
boom sticks. They keep breaking.
boonin. to leave the road in a car for the
boondocks. Tom has a 4-wheel-drive
so we can really boon!
boondocks and boonies[“bundaks and
“buniz] n. an isolated area; an area of wild
terrain; suburbs distant from a city.
(From the word for mountain in the
Tagalog language. Since World War II.)
The weather out in the boonies looks
cold and dry. I don’t want to be stuck
out in the boondocks!
boondoggle[“bundOgl] n. a waste of time
and money; a project for spending pub-
lic money. Another Washington boon-
doggle came to light today as investigators
revealed plans for a dam in a California
canyon that doesn’t have any water. This
is another boondoggle—just the thing
every single baby-kisser pledged to stop.
booniesGo to boondocks.
boosiasm(s) n. a woman’s breasts. (A
blend ofbosom and enthusiasm. Occurs
both as a count and a noncount noun.
Old but recurrent. Usually objection-
able.) Did you see the boosiasms on that
dame? What a remarkable boosiasm!
boost 1. tv. & in. to steal or shoplift some-
thing. (Underworld.) He specializes in
boogie-board