"cut the pigeon wing" meaning in English

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      "form": "cut the pigeon wing",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "name": "Dance",
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          "ref": "1912, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man",
          "text": "[…]that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of talent and ambition. I often heard the younger and brighter men discussing the time when they would compel the public to recognize that they could do something more than grin and cut pigeon-wings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Laura Lee Hope [pseudonym], Six little Bunkers at Mammy June's",
          "text": "They all tried to be polite, and Russ grew quite friendly with one of the bellboys who brought them ice water. He asked that boy if he knew how to cut the pigeon wing, and the boy grinned very broadly.",
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        "To dance with graceful or fancy movements."
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        "(idiomatic, US, dated) To dance with graceful or fancy movements."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cut a rug"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cut the pigeon's wing"
        },
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          "word": "cut pigeon wings"
        }
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        "singular",
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    },
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      "form": "cut the pigeon wing",
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      "form": "cut the pigeon wing",
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          "ref": "1912, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man",
          "text": "[…]that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of talent and ambition. I often heard the younger and brighter men discussing the time when they would compel the public to recognize that they could do something more than grin and cut pigeon-wings.",
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          "ref": "1922, Laura Lee Hope [pseudonym], Six little Bunkers at Mammy June's",
          "text": "They all tried to be polite, and Russ grew quite friendly with one of the bellboys who brought them ice water. He asked that boy if he knew how to cut the pigeon wing, and the boy grinned very broadly.",
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        "To dance with graceful or fancy movements."
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        "(idiomatic, US, dated) To dance with graceful or fancy movements."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cut the pigeon's wing"
    },
    {
      "word": "cut pigeon wings"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cut the pigeon wing"
}