subs. phr. (? obsolete).—A cheap dance. [HOTTEN: The price of admission was formerly twopence: the clog hornpipe, the pipe dance, flash jigs, and hornpipes in fetters, à la Jack Sheppard, were the favourite movements, all entered into with great spirit.]
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 36. The girl is invited to ‘raffles,’ and treated to ‘TWOPENNY HOPS,’ and half-pints of beer.
