boog|ie-woog|ie

boog|ie-woog|ie
boog|ie-woog|ie «BUG ee WUG ee, BOO gee WOO gee», noun.
a form of blues played especially on the piano, marked by a repeating bass rhythm under a freely and elaborately varied, syncopated melody.
[perhaps < boogie, variant of bogy1 jazz musician + a rhyming word]

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