hula-hula
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But last week they said that U.S. sailors were returning to old favorites such as hula-hula girls, a ship framed with palm trees above "Hawaii" or "Aloha."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Midwest fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment at conventions.
From Time Magazine Archive
They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joke At The Dalles, Ore. American Legion State Convention, when Legionaries put on a burlesque hula-hula dance in costume, a bystander playfully poked a lighted match into Legionary Olaf Nelson's grass skirt.
From Time Magazine Archive
She does a dance specialty—an alleged Hawaiian hula-hula.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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