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lindy bomb

v. phr. to swing dance as a group in a place where it is not normally done. Subjects: ,
Citations: 2002 Clark Breyman SFSWING (Mailing List) (San Francisco, California) (July 5) “Any Lindy Bombing the Fillmore Jazz Fest?”: I’m not familiar with any of these acts? Are any of these bombable? 2004 [E:go] Buzzlife Message Board (Mar. 20) “demographics follow-up poll, take 2”: There’s nothing better than lindy-bombing the techno scene! (God I love that swing dancing works with EDM!) 2004 Florida Swing Dancing Club SWINGUF-L (Mailing List) (Florida) (July 1) “lindy bomb at turlington”: To get some exposure and let everyone know about Friday’s dance, we will be lindy bombing turlington plaza on thursday from noon till whenever everyone’s too tired to dance. 2004 [Nightowl] 23 Skidoo (Denver, Colo.) (Nov. 19) “Dan and Tiffiny Class FAQ”: What is a Lindy Bomb? When dancers converge on one non-swing location with some sort of portable music source to dance, exposing the public to the dance. Another version is to go to hip hop/seventies club etc and dance swing. This was all the rage for a while until it was discovered that the actual effect was opposite of the intended effect (to get people to want to dance). 2005 [JesusWithShoes] Swing Society (Champaign, Illinois) (Mar. 28) “Lindy bombs!”: Who wants to lindy bomb the mall? Who has a boombox for lindybombing use?

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