line dancen.
/ˈlʌɪn ˌdɑːns/, /ˈlʌɪn ˌdans/, U.S. /ˈlaɪn ˌdæns/ Any of various dances, esp. folk or country dances, in which multiple participants are arranged in one or more lines.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances
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line dance1961
1961 T. Petrides & E. Petrides Folk Dances of Greeks 13 Thrace and Macedonia... Hassapiko... (Line dance).
1968 B. R. Buckley in T. P. Coffin Our Living Traditions xii. 139 Round-dance, square-dance, line-dance figures were all used in the play-party.
1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) v. 158 Lebanese traditions such as the dabkah line dance.
2001 Billboard 4 Aug. 81/2 What has taken the [honky-tonk] name are the meat market, Village People, rap music, fern country, line-dance bars. Given my druthers, I'm much more at home in the bare-bones, often rank-smelling alternative rooms.
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line dancev.
/ˈlʌɪn ˌdɑːns/, /ˈlʌɪn ˌdans/, U.S. /ˈlaɪn ˌdæns/ intransitive. To participate in a line dance.
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1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times 13 Nov. (Pasco Times section) 1/2 Hilda Hubble effortlessly line danced, holding her arms just so and gliding around the linoleum floor.
1993 Toronto Life Nov. 60/1 It is high noon on Friday and the class is packed... But today isn't normal: we are here to line dance.
2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 8 Oct. On Friday night, hundreds played pool, country line-danced and then watched five people go up against the horned and burly beasts.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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