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GUEST2008

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Hi

What does it mean to "dance like a banshee"? Maybe dance very vigorously?
 

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You wail like a banshee.

A banshee doesn't dance.

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:up: But I think the OP's guess was right, in that the writer probabky meant 'dance in an abandoned way'.

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