plural loogies
Definition of loogie
US, informal
: a mass of saliva and phlegm hawked up from the throat
hawk/hock a loogie There was a time not so long ago, about 22 months ago in fact, when in the fraction of a second it takes to send a loogie hurtling toward a home plate umpire, he became the most hated man in baseball.— Tony Jackson
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The first known use of loogie was in 1967
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