noun
Dougie
DUH-gee
noun
1
A hip-hop dance style involving a loose shimmying motion, often with a hand passed near the head.
"The whole crowd started doing the dougie when the song came on."
verb
1
To perform this dance.
"She dougied her way across the dance floor."
How to Use Dougie
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA casual hip-hop dance move that was a pop-culture fad around 2010.
When to use it
Informal slang, mostly associated with a specific era and song.
Word Forms
dougied past tense, Dougies plural, dougies plural, dougies singular
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Etymology
The dance name comes from Doug plus the informal -ie ending, popularized in a 2010 hip-hop song.