Freak Dancing (1998)

[Grant Barrett]

Usually it's just "freaking." Reads like the principal's not that with
it. Here's a hit from 1993:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/
f1f14272b9f282b7?dmode=source

"A woman here at work told me her 7th grade daughter came home from her
first dance and said the school principal had chastised her for
freaking while dancing with her partner. When asked what freaking
meant, her daughter would not say. Does anybody know the meaning of
freaking in this context?"

Grant Barrett


On Jan 10, 2005, at 20:43, Dave Wilton wrote:

> Saw this in today's news:
>
> "Calif. Principal Bans 'Freak Dancing'", AP, 10 Jan 2005:
>
> "But he said the students continued "freak dancing," a form of
> sexually suggestive dancing that involves grinding the hips and pelvic
> area."
>
> Google Groups has several hundred hits (it's hard to count because the
> search turns up many other senses). The earliest is from 13 Aug 1998
> in rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy:
>
> "At that Terry Fletcher gets up from the table and walks back to where
> the women are freak dancing with each other. Terry smiles and jumps in
> the middle of all of them."
>
> --Dave Wilton
>   dave at wilton.net
>   http://www.wilton.net
>