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cutting the pigeon wing

cutting the pigeon wing is the present participle and gerund 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 cutting the pigeon wing

What is cutting the pigeon wing the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting the pigeon wing is the present participle and gerund of cut the pigeon wing.

Words near cutting the pigeon wing in the dictionary

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

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