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English
Etymology
So called because it might be danced on the cellar flap of a public house by somebody with no money, who could not enter.
Noun
cellar flap (plural cellar flaps)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of double shuffle
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary