“Boogaloo” has its roots in decades of jokes about an old movie: the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. “
Oh oh. To me, the most shocking thing about this sentence is that ‘1984’ is considered ‘old’.
Well, 1984 _was_ 35 years ago!
It's older than that. “Boogaloo” was a type of Latin (mostly Puerto Rican) music and dance in the 1960s. My hometown had a dance club named “Boogaloo," later renamed to "Jigaloo."