Green’s Dictionary of Slang

booger rooger n.

also bugger rugger
[coined by blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson;? origin of boogie-woogie music]

(US black) a bar, usu. illicit.

[US]Blind Lemon Jefferson ‘Hot Dogs’ 🎵 Last Saturday night down at the booger rooger on June the Fourth.
[US](con. 1917-18) S. Price R. Palmer Deep Blues 52: ‘Blind Lemon was using the term ‘booger rooger’ and playing in that boogie-woogie rhythm as far back as, oh, 1917-18, when I heard him in Waco,’.
(ref. to 1917) Wolfe & Lornell Life & Legend of Leadbelly 106: ‘Blind Lemon was using the term ‘booger rooger’ and playing in that boogie-woogie rhythm as far back as, oh, 1917-18, when I heard him in Waco’.
H. Leadbetter q. in Wolfe & Lornell Leadbelly (1992) 162: Frankie went down to the saloon where they got they whiskey an’ beer at [...] Whensoever Albert want to go on a bugger-rugger, he’d go down there to get his whiskey.