cellar flap

English

Etymology

So called because it might be danced on the cellar flap of a public house by somebody with no money, who could not enter.

Noun

cellar flap (plural cellar flaps)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of double shuffle.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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