jitterbug

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That’s evident in how they fail to consider seniors’ needs, even when manufacturing products like the Jitterbug, a phone with extra-big buttons intended for older users.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2020

At one point R&B singer Toni Braxton tweeted her frustrations: “Are we really starting over? I’m sorry I gotta make dinner, this is like watching old folks use Jitterbug phones.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2020

It's a look that was wildly popular in the 1920s through the 1950s among the teenage, Jitterbug dancing crowd.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 24, 2018

There he established a reputation, acquiring one nickname after another—the Black Prince, the Jitterbug Preacher, the Preacher with the Golden Voice.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

"Jitterbug dancing. Verboten. Reading un-German books. Singing un-German songs. Staying out past the ten o'clock curfew. Criticizing Adolf Hitler or the war. Verboten. Verboten. Verboten."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti