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jitterbug

jitterbug
 n.— «The clubs started putting the phrase “no jits” on the flyers—”jit” being short for “jitterbug,” Detroit slang for gangsta.» —by Simon Reynolds Generation Ecstasy July, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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