frug
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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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
Sybil, it also turns out, is a sort of Guinevere of the frug.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug.
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
In the foreground, Edie and her companions frugged, jerked and twisted beneath hot studio lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
The models frugged, swam, and monkeyed down the aisle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath the statue of the count, a blonde girl frugged incongruously on the pedestal as the fighting rolled on.
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
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
One contessa's elegant evening of black-tie art patronage wound up with frugging into the wee hours until neighbors, annoyed at the noise, pelted the windows with pebbles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where once teen-agers were too busy frugging to pay much heed to lyrics, most of which were unintelligible banshee wails anyway, they now listen with ears cocked and brows furrowed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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