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swivel-hipped

[ swiv-uhl-hipt ]

adjective

  1. characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of swivel-hipped1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Like the swivel-hipped cadre of dancers who salsa and mambo the night away courtesy of choreographer Sergio Trujillo’s seductive steps, the show is alive — and it never flags.

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Young is the fastest of the backs while Sanders has the irreplaceable, swivel-hipped lineage to his father.

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The only people crying at the closing of this generally ill-received production are likely to be Ricky Martin fans who never made it to New York to catch the swivel-hipped Latin pop star in his Broadway debut.

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Chris Thile, their charismatic frontman, has been described in the Washington Post as probably "the most virtuosic American ever to play the mandolin"; he looks like a cross between Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller and plays his instrument with swivel-hipped motions.

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Isn’t he the swivel-hipped song-and-dance man who won a Tony Award in 2004 playing the epicene entertainer Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz”?

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