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Definition of Bunny hug
1. Noun. A syncopated ballroom dance formerly popular in the US.
Definition of Bunny hug
1. Noun. (Canada chiefly Saskatchewan and Alberta idiomatic) A sweatshirt with a hood. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) A style of dance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunny Hug
Literary usage of Bunny hug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"The bunny hug is not even a return to barbarism. The noble savage may not be the
glorious creature of eighteenth-century social philosophy; but he Is a king ..."
2. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"We may not laugh at our mothers, for (between me and you) They can out-dance us
often—get all our partners too. THE "BUNNY-HUG" MODERN YOUTH (to ..."
3. Modern Dancing by Vernon Castle, Irene Castle (1914)
"So much has already been said about the vulgarity of the bunny hug that nothing
need be added here except that many men attempt this sort of "strangle hold" ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"sun dance, seguidilla (Spanish), tango, turkey-trot, bunny-hug, onestep, two-
step, boston, german, saraband, saltarello (Italian), schottische, shuffle, ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... the Rainbow Social Club She did the bunny hug with every scrub From Hogan's
Alley to the Dutchman's Boot, While little Willie, like a plug-eared mute, ..."
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