Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Susie-Q n.

[the name of a 1930s dance step, popularized with the song by Lil Hardin Armstrong ‘Doin’ the Suzie-Q’ (1936)]

(US prison) cleaning duties.

[US]N. Algren ‘Little Lester’ in Entrapment (2009) 94: There wasn’t much to doing Susie-Q. Just to haul the Susie-Q wagon, with its load of buckets and mops, and wash down the fourth-floor tier.