trip the light fantastic vs jitterbug

jitterbug vs trip the light fantastic

trip the light fantastic is not a noun while jitterbug is a noun.

trip the light fantastic and jitterbug both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trip the light fantastic	No	No	Yes	No
jitterbug	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, jitterbug is a hyponym of trip the light fantastic; that is, jitterbug is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trip the light fantastic:

trip the light fantastic: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
jitterbug: do the jitterbug

Other hyponyms of trip the light fantastic include jive, hoof, clog, tap dance, belly dance, heel, shimmy, bebop, bop, bump, twist, waltz, waltz around, tap, tapdance, tango, shag, foxtrot, contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country-dance, break-dance, break, break dance, cakewalk, conga, samba, two-step, Charleston, boogie, cha-cha, disco, mambo, polka, one-step, rhumba, rumba, mosh, slam, slam dance, thrash, jig, folk dance, square dance, quickstep, kick, skank, grind, twerk.

trip the light fantastic (noun)	jitterbug (noun)
	a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s

trip the light fantastic (verb)	jitterbug (verb)
move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance	do the jitterbug

Difference between trip the light fantastic and jitterbug

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