jitterbugging

Variant of jitterbug

noun

  1. a dance for couples, esp. in the late 1930s and early 1940s, involving fast, acrobatic movements to swing music
  2. a dancer of the jitterbug

Origin: jitter + bug

intransitive verb jitterbugged, jitterbugging

to dance the jitterbug
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