1. mambo - Noun
2. mambo - Verb
a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
dance a mambo
Source: WordNetBanham (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