Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to drive around.

[1968		Creedence Clearwater Revival ‘Keep On Choogling’ 🎵 If you can choose it, who can refuse it, / You all be choogling tonight. / Go on, take your pick, right from the git go, / You gotta choogle tonight].
1970		R. Christgau in Village Voice (N.Y.) Feb. n.p.: The energy implied by coinages like ‘choogle’ and ‘ramble tamble’ has more to do with vigor than with potency, more to do with simple activity than with sexuality.
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972) 50: choogle v. (B) Progress; continue what has been started. Became popular through the lyrics of a song by a group named Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1987		(con. c.1967) J. Ferrandino Firefight 119: You choogle around town in this short?
2005		review at amazon.com 1 Dec. 🌐 These brilliantly crafted songs [...] just glide, they just, can I say ‘choogle’? yes, I think I’ll say choogle, on down the line.
2014		C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 3: CHOOGLING — conducive to having a good time as characterized by a southern rock aesthetic: ‘Their new album is the most chooglin’ thing I’ve heard in years’.

2. in fig. use, to continue; to persist.

1977

New West 24 Oct. 89: The session choogled on a mite too long, but it kicked like Loozy-ana whiskey .