dabbing

dabbing — noun

1. A dance pose from hip‑hop culture: you drop your head toward one shoulder, stret

1.名詞
釋義

A dance pose from hip‑hop culture: you drop your head toward one shoulder, stretch one arm out horizontally, and bend the other arm so your fist comes near your face.

例句

Rodrigo and his friends learned dabbing from a hip-hop video during lunch break.

collocation: learn dabbing

When Élise showed her parents dabbing, her father tried to copy the pose and laughed.

collocation: show + dabbing as direct object

同義詞
  • dab

    the short form used as a count noun for the pose — 'He struck a dab for the photo'

文法句型

do dabbing

learn dabbing

doing dabbing

用法筆記

This noun refers specifically to the viral dance move that swept through pop culture in the mid‑2010s. It is uncountable — you do or perform dabbing, not *a dabbing. The term is informal and closely tied to hip‑hop culture.

常見錯誤

❌He was dabbing his face with a towel during the party.
✅He was doing dabbing during the party.
💡The dance term dabbing is unrelated to the ordinary verb dab (to touch lightly). The dance uses the structure do / perform dabbing, not the -ing form of dab.