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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

So when he hawked a bloody loogie, spit it into the swampy water and a garfish leaped up and ate it, I decided I had had enough.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 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

But at the end of the second period, those in attendance were treated to wild scene that included a sighting of that rarest of sports phenomena — the magic loogie.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2019

It has that kh, which is a thrashing sound, like you’re trying to hawk up a loogie.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

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