ブギウギ

noun

boogie-woogie

A style of blues-based piano music with a strong, repetitive bass figure, popular in the 1930s–40s. In Japanese, the term is used as a loanword for the genre and its associated dance.

• 彼かれはブギウギのリズムに合あわせてピアノを弾ひいた。

  He played the piano to a boogie-woogie rhythm.

• 戦せん後ごの日本にほんではブギウギが流りゅう行こうした。

  Boogie-woogie became popular in postwar Japan.