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Word: froog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest of scores of new dances that have spun off the twist. The pelvis is crucial. If it swings from side to side, that's the twist, and the twist is now as dead as the big apple. If it bumps and wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Sound of the Sixties | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

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