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lindyhop

lindyhop 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 lindyhop

plurallindyhops

Questions about lindyhop

What is lindyhop the alternative form of?
Lindyhop is the alternative form of Lindy Hop.

Words near lindyhop in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lindyhop (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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