jitterbug

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  1. noun A strenuous dance performed to quick-tempo swing or jazz music and consisting of various two-step patterns embellished with twirls and sometimes acrobatic maneuvers.
  2. noun One who performs this dance.
  3. intransitive verb To perform this dance.

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  • Except we won't be doing the jitterbug, but with apologies to the Clash, we'll probably be rockin 'the Casbah, while riding along on our scooters of course. for positions at a sand plant in Dover.
  • Asked how he reconciles the differences between defending jitterbug-type offensive threats like Porter and Holston and then an athletic power forward like James, Sutton excitedly breaks it all down. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • That was reserved for a jitterbug running back from Kansas named Gale Sayers. —  Out of Bounds
  • The little jitterbug could be worth "x" as a change of pace back to LT2, and worth "x-prime" if he's the replacement for Tomlinson. —  MVN
  • They danced to nearly every song, including a jitterbug, and even when they took a break, —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
 

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  1. From jitterbug, heavy drinker who suffers from the jitters, from jitter.
 

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