MAMBO

mambo

(noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba

mambo

(verb) dance a mambo

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) [from 20th c.]

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. [from 20th c.]

Verb

mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)

(intransitive) To perform this dance.

Anagrams

• bammo

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