Brewer's: Penny Hop

(A). A rustic dancing club, in which each person pays a penny to the fiddler. In towns, private dancing parties were at one time not uncommon, the admission money at the doors being one penny.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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