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shake-a-leg

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shake-a-leg (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) A traditional Aboriginal dance involving rapid movements of the knees.
    • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 296:
      Pretty Mary's clapsticks rang out over the grave while Donny danced shake-a-leg with his father for the very first time and the sight of it made everybody cry, even Kerry.