WordNet
n. a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld)
Usage examples of "apache dance".
And he isn't kind: he wouldn't do an Apache dance with me till I made him.
They do exhibition dances, and one night it's a tango, and the next a crinoline Victorian dance, and then a kind of Apache dance, and then just ordinary ballroom, and of course the makeup varies a good bit.
They do exhibition dances, and one night it's a tango, and the next a crinoline Victorian dance, and then a kind of Apache dance, and then just ordinary ballroom, and of course the make-up varies a good bit.
When they entered, two of the performers were rendering the Apache dance with an abandon that improved on its namesake.
They began a slow shuffling walk, like a weird Apache dance in a Montmartre night club.
His head was doing an apache dance with the rest of his body for a partner.