0 a fast, energetic dance popular during the late 1930s and 1940s, that includes some steps with a partner and some improvised steps (= invented at the time):
I've never seen anyone doing the Lindy Hop who wasn't smiling.
Lindy Hop now has a big following and there are several venues in London where he will find partners waiting to dance with him.
What passes for social wisdom is often anachronistic blather written by columnists who remember the lindy hop.