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sack dance

sack dance
 n.— «I’m tired of seeing 300-pound defenders crash into 150-pound quarterbacks from the blind side, while the quarterback is unloading the ball and defenseless, and then the defender gets up and does a choreographed five-minute Indian sack dance.» —“A Short Look at All the News” by Scott Ostler Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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