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loogie

American  
[loo-gee] / ˈlu gi /

noun

  • loogies
    plural
  1. a thick mass of phlegm, mucus, or saliva stuck in the throat or expelled by spitting.


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The video includes a visual of Pine gazing down at his right thigh, potentially to inspect a loogie that landed upon it, before stretching his face into an uncomfortable smile.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

I didn’t go through chemo, targeted drug therapies, radiation, a clinical trial and surgeries galore just so some random stranger could kill me with a loogie.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2021

It reminds him why the loogie will not disappear without a fight.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2020

This clearly angered Hathaway, whose next course of action was to hawk a loogie in Gudbrandson's face.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 19, 2019

Yo, deal with this, I said in my head, and when I saw nobody was watching I spit a fat loogie on the cheap plastic frame.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Sometimes she'd spit black juice loogies halfway across the yard.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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