[Ads-l] Antedating of "Trucking" (Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

trucking (OED, n. 2., 2. [action of dancing the truck], 1935 [11 May])

1935 Afro-American (Baltimore) 20 Apr. 8/2 (Newspapers.com)

"Trucking" (which is that new stage craze shuffle) is typical Harlem slang, but, I saw a comic do it in Virginia in '28 !

Fred Shapiro

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