Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

1934

Lucille Bogan ‘Down In Boogie Alley’ 🎵 I’m goin’ to stop my man from runnin’ around / ’Cause down in Boogie Alley is where he can be found.

2. sexual intercourse.

1929		C. Spand ‘Hastings Street’ 🎵 Go back there [i.e. Detroit] now, you’re gonna sure get boogie.
1930		L. Bogan ‘Alley Boogie’ 🎵 She’s wild about her boogie, only thing she choose / Now she got to do the boogie, to buy her alley baby some shoes.
1940		S, Bechet ‘Preachin’ Blues’ 🎵 Now in the Good Book on page twenty-four / Says if your wife do the boogie the first time, look out she gon’ do that some mo’.
1974		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 1: boogie [...] in some parts of the US can mean sexual intercourse.

3. a sexually promiscuous person.

1957

Traill & Lascelles Just Jazz 13: A ‘boogie,’ of course, is a ‘bad girl.’ Brothels were called ‘boogie houses’ in many parts of the old South. ‘Pitchin’ boogie’ was a raw term for ‘makin’ a chick’.

4. a good time, a party.

1960		N. Hilliard Maori Girl 153: We used to sit in our huts and listen for the gumboot boogie [...] waited till you heard the feet banging on the floor somewhere around. That’s how you found out where the party was.
1963		L.F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 105: When he talks of ‘going boogie’ with his ‘sheila’, he means he is taking his girl-friend to a dance.
1977		C. Hope Ducktails in Gray Theatre Two (1981) 49: Lekker boogie.
1973		Sun. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 34: I must miss my boogie on a Saturday night.
1983		S. King Christine 246: They had come to do a little dirty boogie on Arnie Cunningham’s Plymouth.
2000		N. Barlay Crumple Zone 61: Food, disco, bit of a boogie.

5. energy.

2000

Guardian Guide 1–6 Jan. 19: Just blame it on the boogie.

6. (drugs) marijuana, esp. when more than usu. strong.

2000

Eminem ‘Bitch please II’ 🎵 Yeah, it’s a toast to the boogie baby / Uhh, to the boogie-oogie-oogie.