Meaning

(music, uncountable) A genre of music that blends rhythm and blues and soul music with Cuban-style rhythms, originating in the United States in the 1960s..

Definitions by Sense

1. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that blends rhythm and blues and soul music with Cuban-style rhythms, originating in the United States in the 1960s.
2. A style of dance to this music, popular in the 1960s.
3. (music, countable) A piece of music, or an instance of dancing, in or of this style.
4. A type of freestyle, improvisational street dance incorporating soulful steps and robotic movements, originally danced to funk and disco, but later more commonly to hip-hop.
5. (Internet slang, humorous) A sequel or repetition of events, etc. Often used to mock a lack of creativity.
6. (Internet slang, US politics) A hypothetical second American Civil War, in which far-right or antigovernment activists rise up against the government.
7. (derogatory, possibly dated) A black person.
8. (intransitive) To dance in this style.

Example Sentences

Most hip Gothamites now trying to get rhythmic understanding between arms, legs and sacroiliac in order to get in on the Boogaloo dance craze.

Fania did not begin as a boogaloo label but it was also quick to sign new, previously unheralded talent, including Bobby Valentin, George Guzman, Monguito Santamaria, Joe Bataan and the teenage Willie Colon.

Basie played boogie-woogie, and Ellington boleros and boogaloos. To see the Marsalis faction rap a standard or breakdance before the blues would bring them full-circle, in full embrace, […]

They enjoy a martini or a boogaloo in bachelorette apartments in unnamed cities. These album covers plant the seeds for my growing taste for camp and for my use of music as a space for dreaming up new selves.

Electric boogaloo meme

“Felix, I—” “Kate, come on,” he begged. “We're a team, sleuth times two, boogaloo. We can do it.”

Today, boogaloo has seeped out of the gaming community and found fertile ground in militant fringe movements. That includes anarchists and others on the far left. But it's especially popular among right-wing militias and self-described patriot groups.

This month, the party involved itself once again with the boogaloo movement, when Cohen spoke at a gun rights rally co-hosted by a self-described “boogaloo boy” in Richmond, Virginia. Cohen used his speech to argue relaxing gun laws could end police violence.

Word Forms

• boogaloos
• boogalooing
• boogalooed

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