Usually means: Energetic dance from swing era.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word jitterbug:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. jitterbug: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jitterbug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jitterbug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jitterbug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jitterbug: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jitterbug, jitterbug: Wordnik
  7. jitterbug: Wiktionary
  8. jitterbug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jitterbug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. jitterbug: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. jitterbug: Dictionary.com
  12. jitterbug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Jitterbug (disambiguation), Jitterbug, The Jitterbug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. jitterbug: Rhymezone
  15. jitterbug: Free Dictionary
  16. jitterbug: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. jitterbug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. jitterbug: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Jitterbug: Who2

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. Dance (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jitterbug (dance), Jitterbug (dance move), jitterbug: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jitterbug, jitterbug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jitterbug: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jitterbugged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
noun:  (jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
noun:  (dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
noun:  Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”)
verb:  To dance the jitterbug.

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