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black bottom
1. [black a. 1 c, bottom n. 5.] A low-lying area inhabited by a coloured population. U.S.
1915Lit. Digest 4 Sept. 500/2 Uncle Mose aspired to the elective office of justice of the peace in the ‘black bottom’ part of town.
2. The name of a dance, esp. popular in and for a time after 1926. Also as v. orig. U.S.
1926N.Y. Times 19 Dec. vii. 4/6 It occurred to the producer that if you could dance before the beat you would have a new rhythm... The result is the Black Bottom. 1927Observer 6 Feb. 15/7 The accounts of the new dances are discouraging. There is the Black Bottom, the very name of which spoils a spring morning. 1927Daily Express 25 May, Miss Bradhurst had black bottomed nineteen miles..before she collapsed. 1928‘Sapper’ Female of Species v. 76 ‘What matter that his Black Bottom is the best in London.’ ‘My Gawd! sir,’ gasped the other. ‘His 'ow much?’ 1968D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. viii. 137 The mock elegance and good taste of the Victorian soirée gave place to the rumbustious ‘Charleston’ and the ‘Black Bottom’. |