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booger up

booger up
 v. phr.— «The road takes you straight up the foothills at a six or seven percent grade; in places, the lines on the road disappear completely, and there’s not a whole heck of a lot of runoff in most places. If you get boogered up, as they say in the desert highlands, you fall a long, long way to the bottom.» —“The Great Escape—2007 Audi RS4″ by Karl Funke European Car (Anaheim, California) Nov., 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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