Definition of "frug"

frug

/fɹʌɡ/

noun
plural frugs
1. (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
  Quotations
  She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.
  1964 July 15, The Australian, Sydney, page 20, column 3
  They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
  1990, T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East: A Novel, Viking, page 166
  In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.
  1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, page 158
verb
third-person singular simple present frugs, present participle frugging, simple past and past participle frugged
1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.
  Quotations
  Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.
  1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist‎, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 12
  "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.
  1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 105