A lively solo tap dance, performed typically in wooden-soled shoes.
〈美，主史〉（穿木底鞋跳的）独人踢跶舞
as modifierbuck-and-wing dance
Example sentencesExamples
A large, crowded party (without an audio track) thus sounds like a troop of chipmunks dancing a buck-and-wing in a thatched roof.
That is why Hayakawa, 73, takes regular tap lessons, frequently practicing his steps before a mirror to make certain his buck-and-wings are smooth.
A buck-and-wing is a solo tap dance with many leg flings and leaps.
The ancient dances of America haven't such roots, nor such vitality; and we may have to become much more simple, or much more sophisticated, before we will proceed naturally to buck-and-wing and cakewalk and the ordinary breakdown on the floor of the Palais Royal.
Joplin was obviously familiar with virtuosic pianism, as well as the minstrels’ ‘plantation melodies,’ cakewalks, buck-and-wings and jigs, prior to his professional start in St. Louis in 1885.
Definition of buck-and-wing in US English:
buck-and-wing
nounˌbəkənˈwiNG
US historical
A lively solo tap dance, typically done in wooden-soled shoes.
〈美，主史〉（穿木底鞋跳的）独人踢跶舞
as modifierbuck-and-wing dance
Example sentencesExamples
Joplin was obviously familiar with virtuosic pianism, as well as the minstrels’ ‘plantation melodies,’ cakewalks, buck-and-wings and jigs, prior to his professional start in St. Louis in 1885.
A buck-and-wing is a solo tap dance with many leg flings and leaps.
The ancient dances of America haven't such roots, nor such vitality; and we may have to become much more simple, or much more sophisticated, before we will proceed naturally to buck-and-wing and cakewalk and the ordinary breakdown on the floor of the Palais Royal.
A large, crowded party (without an audio track) thus sounds like a troop of chipmunks dancing a buck-and-wing in a thatched roof.
That is why Hayakawa, 73, takes regular tap lessons, frequently practicing his steps before a mirror to make certain his buck-and-wings are smooth.