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Idiom

bunny hug

Meaning

A style of early 20th-century dance, performed to ragtime music.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“They learned how to do the bunny hug at the party.”

“The band started playing ragtime music, and the crowd immediately began to perform the bunny hug.”

“Although the dance was considered quite scandalous in its day, the young couple enjoyed performing the bunny hug at the local jazz club.”

Examples

simple

“They learned how to do the bunny hug at the party.”

contextual

“The band started playing ragtime music, and the crowd immediately began to perform the bunny hug.”

complex

“Although the dance was considered quite scandalous in its day, the young couple enjoyed performing the bunny hug at the local jazz club.”

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