Popping

Popping

A dance style and one of the original funk styles of dance that is thought to have come from San Francisco Bay Area, California during the 1960s-70s.

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popping

Language; Slang

Happening. * Is anything popping around here? * Things are always popping at the gym.

a pop

Language; Slang

A time; a try; apiece. (Always with a in this sense.) * Twenty dollars a pop is too much. * I love records, but not at $15.98 a pop.

pops

Language; Slang

One’s father; any older man. (Also a term that can be used to address someone directly.) * Hey, pops! How you doing? * Well, pops, what do you think?

pop

Sports; Baseball

To hit a ball that travels very high and stays in the infield. It's called a pop-foul when it falls or is caught in foul territory. For example, Rondini popped it foul out of play ...

pop

Sports; Baseball

A batter with "pop" has exceptional bat speed and power. * "Reggie popped one" implies that Reggie hit a home run. * "Ian Kinsler Proves He Has Pop to Center".

krumping

Dance; African-American

Street dance popularized in the United States that is characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. Krumping originated in South Central Los ...

Monkey

Dance; African-American

A novelty dance, most popular in 1963. The dance was popularized by two R&B records: Major Lance's "The Monkey Time", and The Miracles' "Mickey's Monkey" both Top 10 Pop hits ...

Walk-around

Dance; African-American

A dance developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States.

Lindy Hop

Dance; African-American

A dance based on the popular Charleston and named for Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing in 1927. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its ...

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Dance; African-American

A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called "The Charleston" by ...

Texas Tommy

Dance; African-American

A name used in Lindy Hop for a dance move in which the leader executes a swingout but on the four counts of the return. This dance was a hit around 1910 at a Negro cabaret, ...