How to pronounce buck-and-wing

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What buck-and-wing means

noun

A fast, showy tap dance with gliding and stomping steps

In a sentence: The old vaudeville star could still do a buck-and-wing, his shoes clicking across the stage.

Where it comes from: Buck was an old word for a kind of dance. Wing comes from the way the dancer's arms flap like wings.

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