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cuts the pigeon wing

cuts the pigeon wing is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut the pigeon wing.

Meaning of cut the pigeon wing

Verb

cut the pigeon wing (third-person singular simple present cuts the pigeon wing, present participle cutting the pigeon wing, simple past and past participle cut the pigeon wing)

  1. (US, dated, idiomatic) To dance with graceful or fancy movements.
    • […]that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of talent and ambition. I often heard the younger and brighter men discussing the time when they would compel the public to...1912, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Questions about cuts the pigeon wing

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Cuts the pigeon wing is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut the pigeon wing.

Words near cuts the pigeon wing in the dictionary

  1. cuts the cord
  2. cuts the fool
  3. cuts the ground from under someone's feet
  4. cuts the knot
  5. cuts the mustard
  6. cuts the pigeon wing
  7. cuts the rug
  8. cuts the shit
  9. cuts the umbilical cord
  10. cuts through
  11. cuts ties

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