TURKEY TROT

bouncy American ballroom dance dating from the 1910s. Imitating a turkey's walk, dancers quickly bobbed up and down to the ragtime music, rising on the ball of the foot and then dropping to the heel. Onlookers accustomed to the smooth glides of earlier dances were shocked at the jerky movements of the turkey trot and other related rag dancesthe grizzly bear, bunny hug, chicken flip, and horse trot.