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单词 jitterbug
释义

jitterbug

/ˈdʒɪtəbʌɡ /
noun
1A fast dance popular in the 1940s, performed chiefly to swing music.When he does surgery he dances, does the jitterbug....
  • Old men in paper hats dance the jitterbug with old women in poodle skirts.
  • They said it so often that the panic spread and everyone danced the jitterbug.
1.1 dated A person fond of dancing the jitterbug.A motormouth jitterbug with a shiny dome, he was the X factor, goosing the rhythm and galvanizing the offense.
2 informal, dated A nervous person.So now to the big day, needless to say there were hardly any jitterbugs....
  • Obviously, using a jitterbug is not a good practice.
verb (jitterbugs, jitterbugging, jitterbugged) [no object]
Dance the jitterbug: we jitterbugged to the catchy rhythms...
  • I find it hard to believe I not only wore some of those shoes but also two-stepped, waltzed, and even jitterbugged in them.
  • Following straight on from the Pilates class above will be an introduction to jiving and jitterbugging.
  • They were waltzing when they should have been jitterbugging.

Origin

1930s (originally US): from the verb jitter + bug.

Rhymes

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