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): --
What passes for social wisdom is often anachronistic blather written by columnists who remember the lindy hop.
Lindy Hop now has a big following and there are several venues in London where he will find partners waiting to dance with him.
I've never seen anyone doing the Lindy Hop who wasn't smiling.