Grind House

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks, Ben!

-Wilson

On 3/31/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On 3/30/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > My experience re "grinding"
> > also being a kind of dance once popular among the adolescenti is the
> > same as yours. What's the current dance called, wherein the chick
> > bends forward at the waist and grinds her arse against the guy's
> > crotch? Would that there had been such a dance in the '50's! Now that
> > I fantasize, uh, think, about it, the dance could still be called
> > "grinding."
>
> It's still the current term, at least as far as Wikipedia is concerned...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinding_%28dance%29
> Grinding is a type of close partner dance where two or more dancers
> rub their bodies against each other in a manner perceived as
> suggestive. It is popular in the house and hip-hop dance styles. It is
> often performed at nightclubs and parties that play house and hip-hop
> music.
> ...
> Grinding has also been referred to as houseing, juking, freak dancing
> or freaking, bubbling, dirty dancing, Bump and grind, Eating the
> apple, and crunking (UK). It should not be confused with crunk.
> ...
> The most common dance techniques involved in grinding are, but not limited to:
>     * The partners face the same direction so that one partner's
> buttocks (typically a female) appears to be in contact with the other
> partner's groin (typically a male). This is the most common technique
> in the reggaeton scene, otherwise known as perreo (see above). In some
> parts of the Northeastern United States it is commonly called
> culiando, which translates as "love handshake".
> [etc.]
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> --Ben Zimmer
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