词汇 | black bottom |
词源 | black bottom. Originally a low-lying section of a town in- habited solely by blacks. The dance called the black bottom, which originated among blacks in the South, is not named for this geographical description. The New Yorker (October 7, 1926) said the hip-moving dance “was constructed to simulate the movements of a cow mired in black bottom river mud.” |
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