Word: jitterbugged
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...patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively jitterbug. Still he insists the dormitory is perfectly adequate for his needs, or at least sufficient enough to forestall his planning a wedding in the near future merely to raise his standard of living...
...Jitterbug Waltz--The Idler...
...Philippe Junot strolled on the Ocean City, N.J., beach like a couple of locals. Joining them at the surfside home of Caroline's maternal grandma, Margaret Kelly, was Princess Grace. Instead of a little Saturday night fever at a neighborhood disco, Caroline and Philippe opted for a Gay Jitterbug. The horse, that is, whose jockey, Steve Cauthen, was presented the winner's cup by the newlyweds at the nearby Atlantic City race track...
Look. Two men jitterbug their drunk way down Lansdowne Street, shreiking and twirling and smashing into hard brick walls. Their noise intrudes in this damp, silent alley; the warehouses know no human sound or stink from five p.m. to nine in the morning. The men wail deep and coo softly, as if speaking through thin silk stockings...
...Danny Kaye and scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer in the Fred Astaire mold...