chicken dance

English

Noun

chicken dance (plural chicken dances)

1. (preceded by definite article) A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.
2. Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).
   • 1876, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 5072:

     There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.'

Translations

simple modern dance

• German: Ententanz m

Further reading

• Chicken Dance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia