"Highland fling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter 3, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "When Dandy Dinmont, after executing two or three caprioles, and cutting the Highland-fling, by way of ridicule of his wife's anxiety, at last deigned to sit down, and commit his round, black, shaggy bullet of a head to her inspection.",
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          "ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:",
          "text": "She had never danced a step in her life, but that experienced girl capering with circus grace in the Highland fling would, she knew, be as nothing to her given such inspiriting music.",
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          "ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 156:",
          "text": "The artichokes bounded up and down\nOn top of the pumpkins' heads,\nAnd the cabbage was dancing the highland fling\nAll over the onion beds.",
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        "A solo dance of the Scottish Highlands."
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