jitterbug

It references to Audrey Hepburn and British supermodel Twiggy, and the frenetic editing and jitterbug choreography make it a unique entry in her videography.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024

The Germans banned jazz, but wherever they went, U.S. soldiers, known as GIs, introduced locals to jazz and the jitterbug, popular back in the States.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Dorothy WhiteHorse, 89, a Kiowa who attended Riverside in the 1940s, said she recalled learning to dance the jitterbug in the school’s gymnasium and learning to speak English for the first time.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

She’d jitterbug around her apartment when Harry James’s band came on “Make Believe Ballroom” on WNEW.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2020

You can cross over, or do some corny dips, or even jitterbug a little, and she stays right with you.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Another fascinating juxtaposition happened with the dancing, since de Mille’s choreography was supplemented with jitterbugs devised by the king of Harlem ballrooms, Herbert White, who brought along his troupe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

The work emphasizes kinetic folk traditions, whether that means sacred Native American rituals, jazz-club jitterbugs or farmworker jigs.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2016

"Starting off, I had a few jitterbugs, but once I touched the field and saw how the atmosphere was, I got pretty comfortable," Wilson said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2010

Turning Madison Square Garden into a colossal dance palace for jitterbugs.

From Time Magazine Archive

“These mollicoddled jitterbugs show what they’re made of. Just a bunch of cry babies.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Bush caught a screen pass and jitterbugged past a diving tackler and exploded into the open field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2017

The computer screens jitterbugged as the information flowed into the market in an entirely new way — lingering there long enough to trade.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2014

At one, in Mold, in Flintshire, they jived and jitterbugged all day long at a 1950s-themed do.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2012

I hadn’t taken a test on anything since college, so anxieties I hadn’t felt in a long time jitterbugged their way through my stomach.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2012

The bottles started bubbling, gently at first, but then they began to shake faster and faster until the whole table jitterbugged.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

His cameos as Blazes Boylan, jitterbugging across the stage with the self-satisfied air of a country rake, were not just enlivening but renewing, capturing the character in a new idiom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

Today, the “damas” or “big mothers” as the dancers are known, can be found dancing in the early mornings and evenings, blasting their stereos, waving fans and scarves, while jitterbugging, waltzing and jiving.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

Against these, Davis superimposes the bright, almost jitterbugging mosaic pattern on the mother’s spandex pants.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020

Think of the frowns on slow body-touching dancing or jitterbugging, beep-bop, jazz, rock n roll, miniskirts, facial makeup, tight pants, kissing in public, unchaperoned dates, and on and on.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2019

They would blast it out into recreation barracks fall of bobby-soxed, jitterbugging couples: Oh, give me land, lots of land, Under starry skies above, Don’t fence me in.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston