jitterbug
n.— «“Idiot! You’re an idiot!” she started in, grilling him about why he started crack at age 47, about flushing his life down the toilet, about how now, at his age, he would join the idle, young black males in jail. “Jitterbugs,” Lupo called them, using street lingo.» —“Judge Lupo’s legacy more than just one high-profile trial” by Susan Spencer-Wendel Palm Beach Post (Florida) May 30, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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