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

  • noun An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owing to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

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  • noun Alternative form of turkey trot.
  • verb Alternative form of turkey trot.

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  • noun an early ragtime one-step

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Examples

  • "Hallo, Miss Gibbs -- practising the turkey-trot, or what?"

    The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

  • Ben present a more impressive appearance when, finally, he began to turkey-trot down Maple Avenue.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

  • Boys, if I had been a young man the chances are I would have started down the "turkey-trot" road that evening.

    Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

  • Temple of Jimjambo, doing the turkey-trot and the fox-trot and the grizzly-bear and the bunny-hug in the arms of a young man with the face of a bulldog.

    100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

  • All this he discovered while he stood in the doorway of the Hotel de Soto grill, and watched Nell, the ex-chambermaid of the Temple of Jimjambo, doing the turkey-trot and the fox-trot and the grizzly-bear and the bunny-hug in the arms of a young man with the face of a bulldog.

    100% : The Story of a Patriot 1920

  • "Always begin Christmas with a turkey-trot!" he chanted.

    Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • I am optimistic; I laugh; I play cards for money; I turkey-trot.

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • The old men on the Exchange play golf all day, and the young ones turkey-trot all night.

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • He met her at one of those roof-garden, midnight cabaret, turkey-trot palaces in New York -- "

    Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

  • "I moseyed home in a turkey-trot, got Jim and Sanders and the little waggin, went arter 'um, and, I tell you, we had nice livin' fur a fortnight.

    Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

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