hula-hula
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In the Midwest fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment at conventions.
From Time Magazine Archive
They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida.
From Time Magazine Archive
And out in the Pacific William Chickering reached Hawaii from Guadalcanal in time to have Christmas dinner with Bernard Clayton and go to a hula-hula lawn party.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last week they said that U.S. sailors were returning to old favorites such as hula-hula girls, a ship framed with palm trees above "Hawaii" or "Aloha."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Islands have for sale all that's hula-hula.
From Vignettes of San Francisco by Bailey, Almira
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