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lindy-hop

lindy-hop is the alternative form of Lindy Hop.

Meaning of Lindy Hop

Noun

Lindy Hop (plural Lindy Hops)

  1. An American form of dance, from the 1920s, accompanied by jazz music.
    • The Lindy Hop picked up where the Charleston left off, with the first swing-outs, breakaways and "shine steps" added to a basic off-beat two-step. In its early days the Lindy flourished only in lower strata of society.1943 August 23, LIFE

Forms of lindy-hop

plurallindy-hops

Questions about lindy-hop

What is lindy-hop the alternative form of?
Lindy-hop is the alternative form of Lindy Hop.

Words near lindy-hop in the dictionary

  1. lindy
  2. Lindy effect
  3. lindy hop
  4. lindy hopping
  5. lindy hops
  6. lindy-hop
  7. lindy-hopping
  8. lindy-hops
  9. lindyhop
  10. lindyhopping
  11. lindyhops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lindy-hop (page history and authors); Lindy Hop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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