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a 1960s dance that proved you could party while barely moving your feet
means A lively 1960s pop dance done largely in place, with energetic upper-body and arm movements while the feet stay mostly planted.
from The name surfaced in the early-to-mid 1960s alongside a wave of similarly nonsense-sounding dance crazes (the Watusi, the Monkey, the Jerk). Its exact source is genuinely murky — etymologists generally list 'frug' as of unknown origin, likely a coined or playful word rather than a borrowing from any older root. So unlike words with tidy Latin or Old English pedigrees, 'frug' seems to have simply danced into the language on its own.
- origin
- Evolved from the Chicken and the Twist
- era
- Peaked in the mid-1960s nightclub scene
- motion
- Hips and arms swing, feet stay planted
- pop culture
- Featured in 1966 film Sweet Charity
frug dance craze — 1960s american dance where couples face each other and gyrate hips and legs without touching
chubby checker frug — chubby checker's 1965 song 'let's froog' that popularized the dance move