jitterbug

noun, hist., a fast dance popular in the 1940s, performed chiefly to swing music (COD); see also jitterbugging

“Like big bands for swing dancing and jitterbug and that kind of stuff?”

“Oh yeah, jive or jitterbug.”

“There were a lot of dancers that could really put on a show doing the jive and jitterbug, as they called it then.”