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boogaloo, n. orig. U.S.|buːgəˈluː|
Also bugaloo.
[Prob. alteration of boogie n.2 (or boogie-woogie n.), after hullabaloo, etc.]
A modern dance to rock-and-roll music performed with swivelling and shuffling movements of the body, orig. popular in the 1960s.
1965in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. 1967Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Feb. 1/4 After a person has outfitted himself at..one of the 27 psychedelic shops..he is ready to dance the Boog-a-loo at Cheetah, a New York nightspot. 1968M. & J. Stearns Jazz Dance 4 A second wave of dances crashed over American dance floors during and after the Twist:..Hully-Gully, Jerk, Boogaloo, and so on. 1969N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 84 In the absence of any dominant individuals, dance-crazes bossed pop right up until the Beatles broke. There was the Hully Gully..the Monkey. A bit later, the..Frug... Right on into these last years and the Boogaloo, the Philly Skate, the Sanctification, the Beulah Wig. 1979Washington Post 1 Apr. d13 They were trying to get some nice-looking women to teach them the boogaloo.
Hence ˈboogaloo v. intr., to dance the boogaloo.
1967Daily Tel. 23 May 23/8 Some 3,000 girls—mostly in mini-skirts—and boys twisted and bugalooed to psychedelic sounds in this ecumenical effort to bring the Church to Washington's teenagers. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 46 As they boogalooed in the center of the room..Mary whispered to Lesser that she lived no more than two blocks away. 1975Felton & Fowler Best, Worst & most Unusual 35 A chorus of go-go dancers boogalooed. 1979Washington Post 2 Feb. c1/2 Nearly 2,000 people pressed in behind them to boogaloo along Pennsylvania Avenue. 1987Australian 28 Apr. 18/6 Do I want to waltz, fox trot, rhumba or boogaloo?.. Sure! |