Aight, just a bit of background first.

Back in that era, there was a hip-hop subgenre called miami bass. There was an offshoot of that called booty bass. The difference is largely in the degree of rap over the beats, and the nature of the beats. This only matters because Miami at that time was pumping out some serious club bangers. Shit you could really dance to, but would also rattle windows blocks away when played loud.

Da dip was booty bass and a dance song. Like the twist, the macarena, the watusi, the tootsie roll, and other dance fads, the songs were meant to be danced to by the very dance the song was about.

Da dip is basically a modified grind. I put my hand upon your hip (literally), then I dip, you dip, we dip. Dipping in this context is better shown than described.

It's a dance simple enough even drunks, and white kids, can do it; but it's able to be elaborated on by more advanced dancers. Taken to an extreme, it runs fairly close to dirty dancing ala the movie of the same name. It's all hips and grinding of groins. In it's simplest version, it's a couples oriented version of a line dance.

And yes, you would indeed see people doing da dip. Not as popular as just straight up grinding on someone, but it definitely showed up when the song played, and when similar booty bass tracks would. It required less coordination than the tootsie roll or the butterfly for sure, so it saw a short degree of popularity.

It's the stuff that kills toons

when i dip, you dip. we dip.

I heard you should always buy it.

The dip was a dance move, banging your hip against your partners hip, coming up from below.

Dip as in slightly lower your hips because they are dancing in sync.

He means squat

dip /dip/ verb 1. put or let something down quickly or briefly in or into (liquid).

But also dip as in leave the establishment/ building

Dip

to leave or depart, often quickly or suddenly

Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip?

Mock the Week was cancelled for revealing the truth of The Dip

Usually ranch.

I always assumed it was sheep dip.