boogaloo
/ˌbuːɡəˈluː
/US
noun
A dance to rock-and-roll music performed with swivelling and shuffling movements of the body, originally popular in the 1960s.The jazz boogaloo rears its well worn head on ‘Coming Up Roses’, but it is beautifully counter balanced by the folky atmosphere of ‘Barca’....
- ‘Steamer Lane’, ‘South City Midnight Lady’ and ‘Snake Man’ provide some Eagles-esque country contrast, before it's back to beefed-up boogaloos.
- It's done in the style of the boogaloo of the early '50s, that sort of Elvis style.
verb (boogaloos, boogalooing, boogalooed) [no object]
Perform the boogaloo: nearly 2,000 people pressed in behind them to boogaloo along Pennsylvania Avenue...
- Robson, now 21, got boogalooing and moonwalking when most of us are running around like headless chickens.
- It depicts the experiences of common black folk in courtrooms, slum bars, and on the streets, with pimps and jivers, boogalooing and loving Malcolm X.
- These guys, though, make me want to boogaloo down Blaisdell.
Origin
1960s: perhaps an alteration of boogie-woogie.