"boogobs" query

[Gerald Cohen]

   I've come across a term "boogobs" that I had never heard  or seen before
and which does not appear in  Jonathan Lighter's  _Historical Dictionary of
American Slang_.  Is anyone familiar with  the term, and what would its
etymology be?

        The term appears in the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_, August 19, 1999,
Sec. B, p. 7, col. 2; article title (cols. 2-5): "Memo to Gephardt:
Remember the women," by Martha K. Baker:

    "Remember back in June when you came to St. Louis for a fundraiser?
You campaigned to put Democrats back in control of the House... You [said]:
'Failure is not an option.'
     "Now Dick, there's nothing wrong with that line--it's real good, pithy
even.  Hell's bells, can't go wrong quoting from 'Apollo 13,'  but I know a
more propitious quote about failure.  Not that your quote didn't do boogobs
toward raising $2.1 million that night.  ..."

----Gerald Cohen







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