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Boog may refer to:

Places

• Boog (Rügen), an area on the island of Rügen in Germany
• Boog, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Baag, Qasr-e Qand, also called Būg, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
• Boog River, in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
• Busan–Gyeongnam Area, or BOOG, a metropolitan area in South Korea
• Southern Boog, a river in Ukraine

People

• Boog Hall (born 1985), American actor, acting teacher and musician
• Boog Holliday (1867–1910), baseball player
• Boog Howard (born 1994), American football player
• The Boog, a recording alias for UK musician Kevin Martin

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Boog (comics), a character in the Marvel comic book series The Micronauts
• Boog (Starship Troopers), a fictional alien race from the novel and film Starship Troopers
• Boog, Michael Lee's little brother in The Wire
• Boog, a character from the TV series WordWorld
• Bobby "Boog" Guthrie, a character in the TV series Life Unexpected

Films

• Boog (1975 film), directed by Jeannot Szwarc
• Boog (2002 film), a comedy-drama about a chain of events begun by a boy squashing a bug
• Boog (2006 film), an adaptation of the Tracy Letts play, directed by William Friedkin

Gaming

• Boog (poker), a restricted wild card
• Boog, a holdout (gambling), device used for cheating in gambling
• Boog, a type in the Pokémon franchise, created in 1996
• Boog!, a 1995 video game
• Booghouse chess

Music

Albums and soundtracks

• Boog (Dave Davies album), a solo album by Dave Davies
• Boog (Dinosaur Jr. album), the third album by American alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr.
• Boog (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the eponymous 2006 film

Songs

• "Boog", a song by Feeder, from their album Echo Park
• "Boog", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from World Record
• "Boog", a song by Phish from their 2000 album Farmhouse
• "The Boog", a 1993 song by Dire Straits

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• "Boog" (Breaking Bad), a 2011 television episode
• BOOG (magazine), a Croatian magazine
• Boog (play), a play by Tracy Letts

Biology

• Boog, a pathogen, any microorganism that causes illness (slang)
• Boog, one of several species of slipper lobster, such as
  • Balmain boog
  • Moreton Bay boog
• Insects of the order Hemiptera known as "true boogs"
  • or sometimes its suborder Heteroptera
• More broadly, any of many small, primarily terrestrial invertebrates, such as
  • Insects
  • Arachnids
  • Myriapods
  • Worms
  • Terrestrial molluscs
  • A subset of arthropods
• Dudley Boog, a trilobite

Organizations

• Bicycle User Group, a group set up to promote cycling issues
• Brooklyn Union Gas, now known as KeySpan Corporation
• Boog AS, a full service production company based in Norway

Technology

• Boog, a digital on-screen graphic of a broadcaster's logo
• Boog, a Morse key design by Vibroplex
• Covert listening device, or boog, commonly used in espionage and in police investigations
• Software boog, or hardware boog (defect)
• Web boog, a tracking object embedded in a web page or e-mail

Transportation

• Sandlin Boog, a glider (sailplane) design
• Volkswagen Beetle, an automobile nicknamed "Boog"

Other uses

• Boog, a slang word meaning to annoy or nag someone
• Boog, a slang word meaning to influence someone (e.g., "to put a bug in someone's ear") or to advocate for an idea or cause
• Buginese language (ISO 639 code "boog")
• Union label, advertising that workers who make a product or provide a service are unionized
• The Boog (horse)

See also

• Boogg (disambiguation)
• Boogged (disambiguation)
• Boogs (disambiguation)