Crossword clues for jitterbug
jitterbug
- Swinger, perhaps
- A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- Alarmist judge beheaded minor flytipper
- Lively movement in Spooner's beer glass
- Little hesitation shifting butt around in dance - this one?
- Pitcher of beer for Spooner's dance
- Jerky dancer takes Reverend William's beer glass?
- Jazz dance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jitterbug \jitterbug\ n. a fast and vigorous American dance that was popular in the 1940s, having few standardized steps and personalized with various twirls, twists, and acrobatic moves; it was performed often to the accompaniment of swing or boogie-woogie tunes.
jitterbug \jitterbug\ v. i. to do the jitterbug.
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 with" sense). Another sense current about this time was "swing music enthusiast." As a verb from 1938.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A nervous or jittery person. 2 A jazz musician or aficionado. 3 An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps. vb. To dance the jitterbug.
WordNet
n. a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
v. do the jitterbug
[also: jitterbugging, jitterbugged]
Wikipedia
The jitterbug is a kind of dance popularized in the United States in the early twentieth century and is associated with various types of swing dances such as the Lindy Hop, jive, and East Coast Swing.
A jitterbug is a swing dancer, any of various types of swing dances, or the act of dancing to swing music.
Jitterbug may also refer to:
- " The Jitterbug", a song cut from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack
- Jitterbugs, a film
- Jitterbug Perfume, a novel by Tom Robbins
- Jitterbug Wireless, a mobile phone company
- Diddley bow, a musical instrument
- "Jitterbug", a song by Ellegarden
- "Jitterbuggin'", a song by Heatwave on the album Candles
- "JitterBug", a free software web based (software) bug tracking system
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.