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Lambeth walk

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dance popular in the late 1930s in which the dancer imitates the exaggerated jaunty walk of a comic Cockney character of theatrical shows.

    "On her behalf he made a tour of Ireland introducing new dances, and was the first to demonstrate the Lambeth Walk, an adaptation of a dance from Lupino Lane's production "Me and My Girl.""

Etymology

Originally the name of a comic Cockney sketch and song, c. 1901, and later popularised as a dance in the 1937 theatrical production Me and My Girl and 1939 movie The Lambeth Walk; punning on Lambeth Walk, a street in the London suburb of Lambeth.

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