Sure, and why not do a buck-and-wing and holler "Yowza" while you're at it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Whereupon two or three youngsters jumped out and performed a good imitation of a buck-and-wing dance. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
In a live feed where news is breaking, they buck-and-wing while research staffs scramble to Google up information to make them look a little less piteous. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ross: Can We Separate Television News from the Game Show Mentality?] Reference
Through a mammoth effort, Becky was able to suppress her first instinct, which was to break into a joyous buck-and-wing while belting out “Happy Days Are Here Again.”. From Wordnik.com. [Little Earthquakes] Reference
They went round and round, jerking in a buck-and-wing, bent at the waist, stepping with high knees, their faces alternately staring down at their feet on the ground and bending back to speculate on the blanked heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
"You ought to join the buck-and-wing dancers in a minstrel company.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys in the Jungle Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa] Reference
Bottger insisted that the buck-and-wing and the double shuffle and other forms of jiggery were low. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Archibald, mark you, whose golf was a kind of blend of hockey, Swedish drill, and buck-and-wing dancing. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
We caromed around like a couple of six-spots in a dice-box, and some of the foot-work we did would have had a buck-and-wing artist crazy. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
Wherefore her men-folk call her blessed, and praise her; and then sneak out the backdoor to see the Gilhooly Sisters do a buck-and-wing dance. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
"I'll meet you outside, after the last act," Martin whispered, the while his face showed undivided interest in the buck-and-wing dancing on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Though I can whisper to you I am looking for an undertaker humming a lullaby and throwing his feet in a swift and mystic buck-and-wing, now you see it and now you dont. From Wordnik.com. [Broken-face Gargoyles. III. Broken-Face Gargoyles] Reference
Doc's part in the evening's entertainment was a buck-and-wing dance of a most violent sort, and when he had finished, Jarrow told him to serve all hands with a tot of rum. From Wordnik.com. [Isle o' Dreams] Reference
The girls are as natural as paint can make them, all measuring 36 and 25 and 42 skirts, if they had any skirts, and they're doing a buck-and-wing on the bank of a river with the blues. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Mr. Goble's idea of a musical piece was something embracing trained seals, acrobats, and two or three teams of skilled buck-and-wing dancers, with nothing on the stage, from a tree to a lamp-shade, which could not suddenly turn into a chorus-girl. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
Yet, Sally, jolted by the train, which towards the small hours seemed to be trying out some new buck-and-wing steps of its own invention, slept ill, and presently, as she lay awake, there came to her bedside the Spectre of Doubt, gaunt and questioning. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sally] Reference
Bob Hart had been roaming through the Eastern and Western circuits for four years with a mixed-up act comprising a monologue, three lightning changes with songs, a couple of imitations of celebrated imitators, and a buck-and-wing dance that had drawn a glance of approval from the bass-viol player in more than one house -- than which no performer ever received more satisfactory evidence of good work. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Bread Tray "and did buck-and-wing wonders for half an hour longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
The Roses 'inspired buck-and-wing team. From Wordnik.com. [The Season of the Machete]
To shuffling youngsters "cutting" buck-and-wing. From Wordnik.com. [Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country] Reference
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