buck-and-wing

• “I'll meet you outside, after the last act," Martin whispered, the while his face showed undivided interest in the buck-and-wing dancing on the stage.”

  Chapter 15

• “In a live feed where news is breaking, they buck-and-wing while research staffs scramble to Google up information to make them look a little less piteous.”

  Brian Ross: Can We Separate Television News from the Game Show Mentality?

• “Sure, and why not do a buck-and-wing and holler "Yowza" while you're at it.”

  Standing up to the bullies

• “From a buck-and-wing, DBS quickly maneuvered into a bossa-nova, followed by a Russian country dance.”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “Through a mammoth effort, Becky was able to suppress her first instinct, which was to break into a joyous buck-and-wing while belting out “Happy Days Are Here Again.””

  Simon & Schuster: Little Earthquakes

• “They went round and round, jerking in a buck-and-wing, bent at the waist, stepping with high knees, their faces alternately staring down at their feet on the ground and bending back to speculate on the blanked heavens.”

  Cold Mountain

• “Whereupon two or three youngsters jumped out and performed a good imitation of a buck-and-wing dance.”

  Negritos of Zambales

• “Doc's part in the evening's entertainment was a buck-and-wing dance of a most violent sort, and when he had finished, Jarrow told him to serve all hands with a tot of rum.”

  Isle o' Dreams

• “Yet, Sally, jolted by the train, which towards the small hours seemed to be trying out some new buck-and-wing steps of its own invention, slept ill, and presently, as she lay awake, there came to her bedside the Spectre of Doubt, gaunt and questioning.”

  The Adventures of Sally

• “Archibald, mark you, whose golf was a kind of blend of hockey, Swedish drill, and buck-and-wing dancing.”

  The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

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