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Lindy Hop|ˈlɪndɪ hɒp|
Also lindy-hop.
[f. Lindy, nickname of C. A. Lindbergh (1902–74), the American pilot who in 1927 was the first to make a solo non-stop transatlantic flight + hop n.2 2.]
A Black American dance originating in Harlem (New York); also attrib. Also ellipt. Lindy. Hence Lindy v. intr., to dance the Lindy Hop; ˈlindyhopper, one who dances the Lindy Hop.
1931Zit's Theatrical Newspaper 2 May 11 The winners of the all-Harlem Lindy Hop contest..drew rounds of applause nightly. 1936Life 14 Dec. 64 The Lindy Hop originated at the Savoy. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) xvi. 286 We'd get five teams of lindyhoppers from the Savoy Ballroom. 1948K. Davis Human Soc. 79 The late and unlamented dance step called the ‘Lindy Hop’ was a fad. 1951[see jitterbug n. 2]. 1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring & Summer 831/2 Betty White's Teen-Age Dance Book... Clear instructions for fox trot, lindy, mambo, cha cha, etc. 1969New Yorker 15 Feb. 31/3 Their feet began to tap, and they tore into the Lindy. 1969Disch & Sladek Black Alice ii. 19 No one could challenge his tango, but when he heard fast music his impulse was to lindy rather than to twist. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 108 Here I am, a negro who cannot do the lindy-hop or sing the Blues! 1970A. Miller in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 538 Few can ignore the effects of the cake walk, fox trot, lindy hop, the twist on the movement habits of people in the States. 1973Guardian 7 Aug. 8/4 When I was a kid I would go and dance for the white folks. Do the splits and the Lindy Hop, and they would throw me pennies. |