hully gully

or hul·ly·gul·ly

[ huhl-ee -guhl-ee ]

/ ˈhʌl i ˈgʌl i /

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noun

a dance that is a modification of the frug.

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Origin of hully gully

First recorded in 1960–65; origin uncertain

Words nearby hully gully

hull girder, Hull House, hulling, hullo, hulloa, hully gully, Hulme, Hulse, hum, Humacao, human

How to use hully gully in a sentence

In 2000, Cogswell helped found The Gully, an online lesbian magazine, which closed six years later.
Tick-Tock: The Explosive Power of the Lesbian Avengers|Tim Teeman|March 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Gully Wells shares recollections of growing up with her mother, stepfather, and their famous inner circle.
This Week’s Hot Reads|The Daily Beast|July 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Judge then of my surprise when I rode up out of the water-washed gully and found them nowhere in sight.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

Thousands of Turks in a bunch, so the boys say, swarmed out of their trenches and the Gully Ravine.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
One of the horses was hobbled, and they were all eating hungrily the grass that grew along the gully's sides.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
A few pines were sprinkled about the slopes of the gully, and one or two of them which had fallen lay athwart the creek.
The Gold Trail|Harold Bindloss