plural loogies
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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Since Lorde’s drool hit the grid, loogies have been everywhere but inside our mouths.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025
The hard pass is especially effective when paired with a refusal to look up from your phone or a disdainful loogie hock.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Not some fed up Thuringian washerwoman hocking loogies at the parish priest, but an individual who has been so gripped by an enfolding ideology that the boundary between possessor and possessed is erased.
—Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
Kendall chugs the brown sludge of Tabasco, raw eggs, milk, Peter’s off-limits cheese, other atrocities, and a loogie of Shiv’s spit before Roman dumps the whole thing on his head.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
The alternative, of course, is hocking a loogie.
—Markham Heid, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
This is the first time, however, that either costar has provided an explanation for what Styles really did in the clip, if not hocking a loogie on the Star Trek actor’s lap.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2023
And, most perplexingly, did Styles hock a loogie on co-star Chris Pine’s lap at the screening, as social media sleuths contended, or was Spitgate merely a collective hallucination driven by insatiable appetite for idiotic controversy?
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
Now, all rational thinking would suggest that Styles did not intentionally hock a loogie into the lap of his castmate at a prestigious event.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2022
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025
The hard pass is especially effective when paired with a refusal to look up from your phone or a disdainful loogie hock.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Not some fed up Thuringian washerwoman hocking loogies at the parish priest, but an individual who has been so gripped by an enfolding ideology that the boundary between possessor and possessed is erased.
—Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
Kendall chugs the brown sludge of Tabasco, raw eggs, milk, Peter’s off-limits cheese, other atrocities, and a loogie of Shiv’s spit before Roman dumps the whole thing on his head.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
The alternative, of course, is hocking a loogie.
—Markham Heid, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
This is the first time, however, that either costar has provided an explanation for what Styles really did in the clip, if not hocking a loogie on the Star Trek actor’s lap.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2023
And, most perplexingly, did Styles hock a loogie on co-star Chris Pine’s lap at the screening, as social media sleuths contended, or was Spitgate merely a collective hallucination driven by insatiable appetite for idiotic controversy?
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
Now, all rational thinking would suggest that Styles did not intentionally hock a loogie into the lap of his castmate at a prestigious event.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2022
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“Loogie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loogie. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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