frug
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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Origin of frug
First recorded in 1960–65; of unexplained origin; perhaps akin to frig 1
Example Sentences
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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
Luci Johnson, 16, enjoyed her first state party so much that she stopped the dance in a shoulder-shaking demonstration of the frug with Ricky Keaton, 17, son of a Houston electrical contractor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the co-partner financing the fun house will probably never frug there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Domna, rosa ses espina, sobre totas flors olens, verga seca frug fazens, terra que ses labor grana, estela, del solelh maire, noirissa del vostre paire, el mon nulha no�us semelha ni londana ni vezina.
From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.
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