Vocabulary
- Battle: when competitors face-off in a direct dance competition where the use of arm swings and chest movements known as flares and bucks are common.
- Biter: someone who attends sessions or watches battles in order to feed on others' styles and originality so that they can mimic those moves later at another battle and pass them off as coming from their own inventiveness i.e. plagiarism.
- Session: when a group of krumpers form a circle, or cipher in hip-hop context, and one-by-one go into the middle and freestyle.
- Buck: an adjective used to describe someone who excels in krumping.
- Call-Out: when a krumper initiates a battle with another dancer by "calling" them "out".
- Labbing: when krumpers get together to create new moves and/or adapt their style.
- Kill-Off: when a krumper performs a move that excites the crowd to the point where the battle is over and the crowd surrounds the krumper; the opponent is "killed off."
- Jabs: short, sharp, staccato movements using the arms.
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