Loogie (1985)

[Alice Faber]

It's used fairly regularly (unself-consciously and without expansion) on
the Yankees newsgroup as well.

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Baseball's had an acronymic "loogy" for a few years now:
>
>   http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sports.baseball.pitt-pirates/msg/3348434269a2eddb
>
>   At least it seems to be a genuine acronym....
>
>   JL
>
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> Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
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> In the sense of a wad of phlegm, HDAS has 1988:
>
> San Francisco Chronicle, 27 April 1985, "A Sci-Fi Horror Surprise," p. 38:
> "In the middle of a French kiss, she slips a killer loogie into his face."
>
> (Technically, this article uses "loogie" to refer to a phlegm-like alien
> creature, not a wad of human phlegm, but the writer assumes the readers know
> what a loogie is.)
>
> I'm sure earlier citations are out there. I recall the term from my high
> school days several years before this.
>
> I've also found several much earlier citations of "Loogie" being used as a
> nickname. The reference in these cases is unclear.
>
> --Dave Wilton
> dave at wilton.net
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