Verb
To have a good time.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
- Examples
-
The swimming hole is about 75 yards wide and averages 10 feet in depth, ample space for a swimmer to splash and choogle.
So, choogle on, baby, and choogle on down the highway, man.
More examples (3)
The two categories come together in "Down on the Corner," which is about poor boys who choogle.
He was sitting on the wall with his friends. 'Hey Pat, man! Choogle on over, yeah?' he cried.
“You're all invited. Born to choogle,” he adds, because they kick the tune off with riffs from Creedence Clearwater Revival's premier chooglin' extravaganza, “Born on the Bayou.”
Noun
A funky musical romp.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
Hawkins was the king of the choogle, a southern guitarist from Louisiana who played with the down home swamp funk sound that characterized his greatest hit, the 1957 smash "Suzie Q," a tremendous inspiration on bayou rocker John Fogerty, who used it to get Creedence Clearwater Revival their first hit in the 70's.
Their sound was a collision of glam rock strut, Stooges thuggery, and pub rock choogle.
More examples (2)
Highlights include the voodoo-choogle swamp rock of It's A Cold Night For Alligators and the driving, bubbling groove of Sputnik, driven along by Jeff Sutton's disco-tight, Clem Burke-like drumming, which Billy Miller claims is Roky's answer song to Joe Meek's Telstar.
In fact, it might be a stretch to call R.E.O. Speedwagon prog at all, if they didn't temper the riverboat-pianoed bonfire-in-the-woods choogle of their first two albums with occasional outrageously ambitious, amp-cranking, Hammond-pumping gloom monsters that, like sundry early Kansas/ Head East / Styx tracks, seemed to owe more than a bit to the majestic post-psychedelic organ-metal funderals of the UK's Uriah Heep.