frug

plural frugs

1. usually preceded by definite articleA dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.

   Like I figure it would be best at that point to break for a fifteen minute Frug or Watusi.

   1965 September 10, The Australian Jewish Herald, page 5, column 4

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   She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.

   1964 July 15, The Australian, Sydney, page 20, column 3

   The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.

   1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 52

   They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.

   1990, T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East: A Novel, Viking, →ISBN, page 166

present singular third person frugs · participle present frugging · participle past frugged · past frugged

1. intransitiveTo perform this dance.

   You frug away, belting out the lyrics with the rest of the mob.

   2009, Tim Thornton, The Alternative Hero, Random House, →ISBN, page 8

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   Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.

   1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 12

   "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.

   1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 105

   A snake charmer merely hypnotizes the creature with his movements. So I began to move the flute, just as Gopal had done. Now I had the cobra frugging.

   1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 53

   In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.

   1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158