Line Dance Definition & Meaning

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  • line dance 1 American

    noun

    1. a dance to country music in which dancers line up in a row without partners and follow a choreographed pattern of steps.

    2. a dance performed by a line of people.

    line-dance 2 American [lahyn-dans] / ˈlaɪnˌdæns /

    verb (used without object)

    line-danced, line-dancing
    1. to participate in a line dance.

    Other Word Forms

    • line dancer noun

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    In the community centre, a group of mainly elderly people are talking and laughing and being led in a line dance to the song Candy by Cameo.

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    Few knew each other before joining, but they now play pickleball, line dance and gather for game nights.

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    Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.

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    At the “pressure test” events, they lurk nearby, observing, but sometimes participating — Kelly will pole and line dance; London will get a tattoo.

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    At the station's festival, she grabbed the crowd's attention - whether by hurling herself around the stage with wild abandon, or body-popping with her keyboardist, or persuading several thousand 6 Music listeners to do a line dance during I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!

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