[
US
/ˈdʒɪtɝˌbəɡ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɪtəbˌʌɡ/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɪtəbˌʌɡ/ ]
VERB
- do the jitterbug
NOUN
- a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
How To Use jitterbug In A Sentence
- I did the jitterbug with him to a couple of Glenn Miller songs. FAMILY PICTURES
- The war was, in a sense, the latest fad, a topic to be exploited in the same way as other fads like bicycles, automobiles, or the jitterbug.
- They were waltzing when they should have been jitterbugging.
- The answer was to make the jitterbug a slotted dance.
- I guess I liked the more modern stuff more; though the jitterbugging was equally interesting.
- At the shallow end, with their hair in caps, the girls from Typing did the jitterbug in twos.
- I was just a little girl but I used to love peeking around the corner and watching them doing the jitterbug and throwing the girls over their shoulders.
- Rocket Man makes an appearance, and even attempts the jitterbug.
- When darkness fell, searchlight beams swept over dancing crowds, in serious holiday mood, jitterbugging, foxtrotting, in hats and long coats, to the sounds of a full orchestra in evening dress. The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
- ‘In my little pink-white body back in Aberdeen, Washington, doing the jitterbug - I thought such dancing came out of the air,’ says Brown.