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loogie

American  
[loo-gee] / ˈlu gi /

noun

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


Other Word Forms

  • loogies noun

Example Sentences

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I roll over and cough out a green loogie.

From Literature

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

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

I hear the ump—a short dude whose middle is shaped like the highlighter-hued ball that gives this game I love so much its name—hock a loogie above my head.

From Literature

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