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Jerky American 1940s' dance
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jitterbug
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Word definitions for jitterbug in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the shallow end, with their hair in caps, the girls from Typing did the jitterbug in twos.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s v. do the jitterbug [also: jitterbugging , jitterbugged ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popular type of fast swing dance, 1938, American English, from "Jitter Bug," title of a song recorded by Cab Calloway in 1934. Probably the literal sense is "one who has the jitters" (see jitters ; for second element see bug (n.) in the slang "person obsessed ...
Usage examples of jitterbug.
They had all been on their best behavior but the minute Betty Raye left, they ran to the jukebox and the jitterbugging began.
If she had had another few weeks she might have even taught Betty Raye to jitterbug.
He did the bebop, the rebop, the jitterbug, the twist, and even invented a few steps.
Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.
The girls shaking their hips at double beat to the time of the music and the boys jitterbugging around them.
Some of the gang members came forward, jitterbugging and dancing down the aisles and either pretended to put in money or tried to take some out of the cartons.
There were about five or six of them jitterbugging in the street, wiggling their hips and kicking their feet.
I was wondering if you saw two jitterbugs jump into a car driven by an older white guy, then shoot him and dump him out of the car.
He began to do a sarcastic jitterbug to the old-timey big-band music, and someone catcalled over to him.
All she wanted from life was to be one day a strutting and prancing baton twirler or a jitterbug.
The other was a PRC hunk of junk,jive junction, starring Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.
If I'm any judge of character, I'd say the Jitterbug Club shooting event should just be starting to hot up.
My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba, the Charleston, the Lindy hop, the jitterbug, the Watusi, and the twist.
In the end it is the quick-thinking kids who put an end to the warty horror, and then go off to the local hangout to suck up chocolate malteds and jitterbug to some forgettable tune as the end credits run.
No more parties, no more jitterbugging at Al Arif, no more frothy upper-class murder cases in Palm Desert or Beverly Glen.