hip-grinding

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English

Noun

hip-grinding (uncountable)

  1. (often attributive) A sexual gyrating of the hips when dancing.
    • 2002, Iain Stewart, Mark Whatmore, Rough Guide to Guatemala, →ISBN, page 43:
      Reggae basslines boom from giant stacks of speakers and the streets and dancehalls are crammed with hip-grinding groovers.
    • 2008, LaTonya W. Moore, A Summer of Passion, Love, Pain, and Happiness, →ISBN, page 48:
      Jasmine was putting a hurting on ole boy with her hip-grinding dance moves.
    • 2009, Richard Alan Schwartz, The 1950s, →ISBN, page 288:
      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.
    • 2015, Martha Jo Black, Chuck Schoffner, Joe Black: More than a Dodger, →ISBN, page 160:
      They nicknamed him “Meneito” - a Cuban dance with lots of hip grinding.

Adjective

hip-grinding (comparative more hip-grinding, superlative most hip-grinding)

  1. (Of music) having a groove that suits this type of dancing.
    • 1989 December 1, “Soundtracks from different tracks”, in The Crisis, page 12:
      The Gladhand Band offers “Taylor's Cafe,” another blues tune in the same hip-grinding vein.
    • 1995 November 18, “Worldwide Dance”, in Billboard, page 44:
      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.
    • 2009, Sheree Homer, Catch That Rockabilly Fever, →ISBN, page 1:
      Yet this effervescent hybrid of highthrottle hillbilly and hip-grinding R&B is America's most misunderstood and least appreciated commercial genre.
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