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watusi

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1. watusi - Noun

2. watusi - Verb

Meaning

A popular dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song "Wah-Watusi" by The Orlons in 1962.

A Christmas firework popular in the Philippines, made with yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene.

watusi (third-person singular simple present watusis, present participle watusiing, simple past and past participle watusied)

(intransitive) To dance the watusi.

A member of a Bantu-speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi; the Tutsi.

A cow of a modern American breed.

Alternative form of watusi (“1960s dance”)

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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet. Ralph Nader

A red wooden bridge and remnants from the Watusi Geyser and Zambezi Falls, a 30-foot waterfall, citation from Africa USA can still be seen at the entrance to Camino Gardens. Source: Internet

Two Watusi × Chianina breeding herds have been set up in Boxmeer and Breda in the Netherlands, another herd using Barrosã is being set up in northern Portugal. Source: Internet

The finalised plans now call for setting up two breeding lines, Sayaguesa × Maremmana primitiva/Hungarian Steppe cattle and Watusi × Chianina, and later crossing these lines. Source: Internet

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