the floss

the floss

A dance move involving swaying the hips from side to side while simultaneously moving the arms in the opposite direction and in front of and behind the hips. All my students are doing the floss now, and I still don't know how to do the Dougie.
See also: floss
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • from side to side
  • the far side
  • wave at
  • wave at (someone or something)
  • wave to (someone or something)
  • weave
  • bob and weave
  • come down on the side of (someone or something)
  • come down/out on the side of somebody/something
  • take (one's) side
References in classic literature
Just by the red-roofed town the tributary Ripple flows with a lively current into the Floss. How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets!
The burden is no longer heavy when we have for our past troubles only the same sweet mingling of pleasure and pity that we feel when old knight-hearted Colonel Newcome answers " adsum " to the great roll-call, or when Tom and Maggie Tulliver, clasping hands through the mists that have divided them, go down, locked in each other's arms, beneath the swollen waters of the Floss.
"It is coming, Emmie," she said presently; "do you remember in The Mill on the Floss, when Maggie Tulliver closed the golden gates of childhood behind her?
Her father, a manager of estates for various members of the landed gentry, was to a large extent the original both of her Adam Bede and of Caleb Garth in 'Middlemarch,' while her own childish life is partly reproduced in the experiences of Maggie in 'The Mill on the Floss.' Endowed with one of the strongest minds that any woman has ever possessed, from her very infancy she studied and read widely.
This may be because of presence of an additional coating of wax on the floss threader, comfort offered by waxed flosses, and lesser chance of accidental injury to the gums.
Many of the innovations created in the FLOSS activity are not directly monetized, which introduces a particular difficulty to traditional measuring methods.
DANCE craze the floss is becoming a right pain - as it gets the blame for soaring numbers of knee problems.
The craze for dancing the floss is becoming a real pain - as it gets the blame for soaring numbers of knee problems.
Dance craze the floss is becoming a right pain -- as it gets the blame for soaring numbers of knee problems.
Starting with about 18in of floss, wind most of the floss around each middle finger, leaving an inch or two of floss to work with.
Velasquez noted that tying the floss to the loose tooth was the hardest part in the procedure.
He said that the use of the floss was more hygienic than the wooden pick, noting that using the floss one could hardly risk injuring his or her gum.
To use the floss threader, place the floss through the hole and place the threader under the bridge and floss as normal, pulling the remaining floss out.
I will, therefore, not be taking part in a new craze sweeping the nation, The Floss.
The parents give in, fully knowing that with first bite the child is going to wonder where all the floss disappeared .