English Explanatory Dictionary

Lambeth Walk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dance popular in the late 1930s in which the dancer imitates the exaggerated jaunty walk of a comic Cockney character of theatrical shows.

Word forms

Lambeth Walk the Lambeth Walk Lambeth Walks

Etymology

Originally the name of a comic Cockney sketch and song, c. 1901, and later popularised as a dance in the 1937 theatrical production Me and My Girl and 1939 movie The Lambeth Walk; punning on Lambeth Walk, a street in the London suburb of Lambeth.

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