Dictionary

hip-grinding en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Of music) having a groove that suits this type of dancing.
   • The Gladhand Band offers “Taylor's Cafe,” another blues tune in the same hip-grinding vein. 1989 December 1, “Soundtracks from different tracks”, in The Crisis, page 12:
   • Yet this effervescent hybrid of highthrottle hillbilly and hip-grinding R&B is America's most misunderstood and least appreciated commercial genre. 2009, Sheree Homer, Catch That Rockabilly Fever, →ISBN, page 1:
   • The sound is hip-grinding deep-house along the order of David Morales, Derrick May and "Little" Louie Vega, with a clientele that is largely comprised ent pop. 1995 November 18, “Worldwide Dance”, in Billboard, page 44:

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hip-grinding en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (attributive, often, uncountable) A sexual gyrating of the hips when dancing.
   • During Presley's third appearance, on January 6, 1957, Sullivan introduced Presley as a fine, wholesome young man but appeased critics of the singer's “lascivious” hip-grinding by filming the performer from only the waist up. 2009, Richard Alan Schwartz, The 1950s, →ISBN, page 288:
   • They nicknamed him “Meneito” - a Cuban dance with lots of hip grinding. 2015, Martha Jo Black, Chuck Schoffner, Joe Black: More than a Dodger, →ISBN, page 160:
   • Reggae basslines boom from giant stacks of speakers and the streets and dancehalls are crammed with hip-grinding groovers. 2002, Iain Stewart, Mark Whatmore, Rough Guide to Guatemala, →ISBN, page 43:
   • Jasmine was putting a hurting on ole boy with her hip-grinding dance moves. 2008, LaTonya W. Moore, A Summer of Passion, Love, Pain, and Happiness, →ISBN, page 48: