frug

American  

[froog] / frug /

noun

1. a dance deriving from the twist.

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verb (used without object)

frugged, frugging

1. to dance the frug.

Other Word Forms

• frugger noun

Etymology

Origin of frug

First recorded in 1960–65; of unexplained origin; perhaps akin to frig ¹

Example Sentences

A year after Frug was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant, a pair of male law students at Harvard wrote a mocking sendup of the article on feminist legal theory that Frug had been working on before she died and which was published posthumously in the Harvard Law Review.

From New York Times

On the anniversary of Frug’s murder, the Harvard Revue, a spoof overseen by editors of the Review, published a parody, “He-Manifesto of Post-Mortem Legal Feminism.”

From The New Yorker

“Big Spender,” “Rich Man’s Frug” and “Rhythm of Life” raise the pulse of a faithful revival that can’t help magnifying the inconsistency of the material.

From Los Angeles Times

“Rich Man’s Frug,” the mesmerizing Eurotrash nightclub sequence, had me shimmying along like a resurrected beatnik.

From Los Angeles Times

Before the world premiere at the York Theater, Val Adams reported in The Times, ABC “invited several hundred persons — truly a cross-section of Manhattan life — to what it called a Batman ‘cocktail and frug party’ at Harlow’s, a discothèque on East 79th Street.”

From New York Times