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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lively jazz dance for couples developed in the late 1920s.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh).

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  • noun a jitterbug, originated in Harlem (New York)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Lindy nickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh.]

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probably from Lindy, the nickname of US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh

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