mambo
(noun) a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
mambo
(verb) dance a mambo
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.]
mambo (third-person singular simple present mambos, present participle mamboing, simple past and past participle mamboed)
(intransitive) To perform this dance.
• bammo
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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