mambo

Speech parts

1. mambo - Noun

2. mambo - Verb

Meaning

a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba

dance a mambo

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

bam mamba jitterbug conga cha-cha dance rhythm jig minuet hustle mumble moonwalk one-step mazurka allemande
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Antonyms

remain stay

Hypernyms

dance dancing terpsichore saltation trip the light fantastic trip the light fantastic toe

Anagrams

bammo Mboma

Examples

Banham (2002, 286 287), citing The Independent 8 August 1997 Joe de Graft adapted Macbeth as a battle to take over a powerful corporation in Ghana in his 1972 Mambo or Let's Play Games, My Husband. Source: Internet

By the mid-1950s mambo mania had reached fever pitch. Source: Internet

Both Weston and saxophonist Stanley Turrentine covered the Nigerian Bobby Benson 's piece "Niger Mambo", which features Afro-Caribbean and jazz elements within a West African Highlife style. Source: Internet

Connecticut: Praeger, 2004: 510 Mambo in New York City In the 1950s, various publications in New York City began to run articles on an emerging "mambo revolution" in music and dance. Source: Internet

New Orleans appropriated the bifurcated structure from the Afro-Cuban mambo and conga in the late 1940s, and made it its own. Source: Internet

He and Winters were forced to work together on Mambo just as their marriage was unraveling, providing fodder for tabloids all over the world. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Mamberamo shrikethrush Mambila Mambiloid mambo sauce mambrino Mambwe