jit1
/dʒɪt
/(also jit jive)
noun [mass noun]
A style of dance music popular in Zimbabwe.For 25 years, he's been building his own ‘Tuku music’ style, blending trad mbira thumb-piano melodies and percussive katekwe, township mbaqanga and zesty Zimbabwean jit....
- Besides incorporating chimurenga music based on the rhythms of the mbira, Mtukudzi borrows from mpaqanga and jit.
- The Edinburgh-based Dance Base runs classes in hip hop, jit and breakdancing for adults and children.
Origin
Shona, from jit 'to dance'.
JIT2
abbreviation
(Of manufacturing systems) just-in-time: well-developed JIT systems
- shoot it out
- shoot one's cuffs
- shoot oneself in the foot
- shoot one's mouth off
- shoot (or kill) the messenger
- shoot-out
- shoot someone/thing down
- shoot someone/thing up
- shoot the breeze (or the bull)
- shoot the sun
- shoot through
- shoot through like a Bondi tram
- shoot up
- shop
- shopaholic
- shop assistant
- shop-bought
- shop boy
- shop class
- shopcraft
- shop-dropper
- shopfitter
- shopfitting
- shop floor
- shopfront