Texas Tommy

English

A dance move popular in the early 20th century, and now in swing dancing, in which the lead passes the follower's hand behind the follower's back and pulls them into a turn.
- 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:
  The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.