Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) to dance.

1927		M.C. McPhee ‘College Sl.’ in AS III:2 131: To dance is ‘to rag,’ ‘to struggle,’ ‘to wrestle,’ ‘to march’.
1954		Wild One [film script] Hey, how ’bout you? You wanna struggle?
1964		Stephenson ‘Misc.’ in AS XXXIX:3 235: struggle, v. To dance.