Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- noun One who performs this dance.
- intransitive verb To perform this dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb to do the jitterbug.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A nervous or jittery person.
- noun A
jazz musician or aficionado. - noun An
uptempo jazz orswing dance whichembellishes on thetwo-step pattern and frequentlyincorporates acrobatic style swingsteps . - verb To
dance the jitterbug.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
- verb do the jitterbug
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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With the jitterbug is a slow steady retrieve the best or is it best to pop it across the top?
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With the jitterbug is a slow steady retrieve the best or is it best to pop it across the top?
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Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 1 year 3 weeks ago try fishing near docks and structures. the jitterbug is a great bass lure especially at dusk and the trout magnet workes great for bass as well as trout, and carpie
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When it crossed over to white audiences, swing's dances were all lumped together by the media under the name "jitterbug".
The Guardian World News Jon Savage 2011
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When it crossed over to white audiences, swing's dances were all lumped together by the media under the name "jitterbug".
The Guardian World News Jon Savage 2011
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The Arbogast black jitterbug is my favorite lure of all time.
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The Arbogast black jitterbug is my favorite lure of all time.
The Mighty Jitterbug 2009
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treeseed commented on the word jitterbug
The term "jitterbug" comes from an early 20th century slang used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the "jitters" (delirium tremens). During the early 1900s, the term became associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. This term was famously associated with swing era dancers by band leader Cab Calloway because, as he put it, "They look like a bunch of jitterbugs out there on the floor" due to their fast often bouncy movements on the dance floor. In popular culture it became generalized to mean a swing dancer (e.g., you were a jitterbug), a type of swing dance (e.g., you danced the jitterbug), or the act of swing dancing (e.g., you were jitterbugging).
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February 24, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word jitterbug
See comments under Jitter Sauce.
March 10, 2011