A negro dance accompanied with patting or slapping.

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1834.  A man looks so unromantic with his teeth, and his hands, and his feet all in motion like a negro dancing ‘Juba.’—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 113.

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1865.  

        Than which not England, cotton-loving Isle,
Brings forth a beast more miserably vile,
    Nor warlike lands where chiefly grow
    The Corn cake, Juba and Banjo.
Yale Lit. Mag., xxx. 164 (March), ‘To a Fus (sy) cus.’    

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1888.  Chuckles of triumph and wild juba patting and dancing around the victim.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 98.

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1888.  The fattest darkey of all waddled down next and did a break-down, at which all the assembly patted juba, and with their woolly heads kept time to the violin.—Id., p. 234.

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1890.  (Accommodated use.) To make a child dance joober is to whip him. (Kentucky.)—‘Dialect Notes,’ i. 65.

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