frug
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of frug
First recorded in 1960–65; of unexplained origin; perhaps akin to frig 1
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Whatever their colorful names – frug, watusi, swim, funky chicken, jerk, on down to the rave, hip-hop, techno – free-form displaced practiced form.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2013
I consider myself lucky to have known, or at least danced the frug in the same disco as, the greats of French fashion.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2013
The contagious music by various bands shifts without breathing space from bossa nova to fox trot to mashed potato to merengue to frug.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sybil, it also turns out, is a sort of Guinevere of the frug.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Honestly, if one more finky psychiatrist tries to tell us why we do the frug, the monkey, etc., we'll go off our nut.
From Time Magazine Archive
He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Let's get a jukebox," somebody yelled, and while the music blared, 1 ,000 chanting students of Wake Forest College twisted, frugged and hully-gullied under the North Carolina sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
The models frugged, swam, and monkeyed down the aisle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Latins call it the Messa Ye Ye, and it had its world premiere April 27 in a Rome church while youngsters frugged in the aisles and priests clapped hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the foreground, Edie and her companions frugged, jerked and twisted beneath hot studio lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
With its squealing Farfisa, Southern-accented shout-singing, and frantic, frugging rhythm, this plucky novelty track resembles nothing so much as a great lost B-52’s B-side.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
"That hurts," Vaizey said, as he once again conjured up images of young Tories frugging around to songs about unemployment and dead Argentinians.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013
But they’re surrounded by a shrill, modestly talented cast reduced to frugging about Christine Jones’s Op Art sets, in Catherine Zuber’s atypically unsightly costumes.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 12, 2011
The continuity was Murray frugging from one surf-or cityside location to the next or jumping into Michigan's River Rouge or plain flipping his trademarked straw lid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the frugging, neon-lit, chromium-plated, plastic, pastel peregrinations of the times demanded a breathless roller-coaster rush of words to re-create the "shockkkkkk" of the real-life experience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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