Usually means: Dance energetically and with abandon.
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  1. cut the rug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cut the rug)

verb:  Alternative form of cut a rug [(informal, idiomatic) To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century.]

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