An anonymous jointed wooden dancer extends its arms and lifts one knee, balanced on a brass central pivot above a shallow circular wooden stage inset with a brass ring on pale grey and lilac ground.

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Mugatu

They're break-dance fighting.

— Zoolander · 2001

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The observation combines break-dancing and fighting into a single strange activity. The excerpt names the hybrid without explaining its participants, tactics or outcome.

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