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jitterbug

[ US /ˈdʒɪtɝˌbəɡ/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɪtəbˌʌɡ/ ]
VERB
  1. do the jitterbug
NOUN
  1. 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.
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