Hip-grinding

Meaning

(often attributive) A sexual gyrating of the hips when dancing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (often attributive) A sexual gyrating of the hips when dancing.
2. (Of music) having a groove that suits this type of dancing.

Example Sentences

Reggae basslines boom from giant stacks of speakers and the streets and dancehalls are crammed with hip-grinding groovers.

Jasmine was putting a hurting on ole boy with her hip-grinding dance moves.

During Presley's third appearance, on January 6, 1957, Sullivan introduced Presley as a fine, wholesome young man but appeased critics of the singer's “lascivious” hip-grinding by filming the performer from only the waist up.

They nicknamed him “Meneito” - a Cuban dance with lots of hip grinding.

The Gladhand Band offers “Taylor's Cafe,” another blues tune in the same hip-grinding vein.

The sound is hip-grinding deep-house along the order of David Morales, Derrick May and "Little" Louie Vega, with a clientele that is largely comprised ent pop.

Yet this effervescent hybrid of highthrottle hillbilly and hip-grinding R&B is America's most misunderstood and least appreciated commercial genre.

Word Forms

• more hip-grinding
• most hip-grinding

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When Should You Use Hip-grinding?

Use hip-grinding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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