booger rooger n.
(US black) a bar, usu. illicit.
🎵 Last Saturday night down at the booger rooger on June the Fourth. | ‘Hot Dogs’||
(con. 1917-18) | 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) | 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’.||
q. in 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. |