A to Z: Charleston, Charleston...

Well, huzzah and hurrah for the X-citing final week of 2014's April A to Z Blog Challenge! What an X-cellent achievement for all the A to Z participants this year, who've X-celled in X-pressing their X-pertise for nearly the full X-tent of the alphabet so far.

And I bet I'm not the only one having to make an X-ception for today's letter, which is a tricky little sucker to find an X-ample of for this blog X-cercise.

Let me X-plain: I couldn't find an X word anywhere in the 1920s slang l-X-icon. So while I can't provide an X-act fit, to suit my purposes today, "X" stands for:



~*~  CRISS-CROSS  ~*~As in, the knee-knocking Charleston dance.
Josephine Baker shows us how it's done.