mambo

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/ˈmæmbəʊ/

noun 2verb 1

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ADJ.

The next mambo competition in our city is scheduled for this coming Saturday evening.

VERB + MAMBO

dance

We danced the mambo all night long at my cousin's wedding celebration.

Definitions

noun

A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.

The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.

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

verb

To perform this dance.

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horizontal mambo

Sexual intercourse.

She says Peters continually harassed her, touching her breasts and buttocks, tried to push her onto a bed when he was naked, tried to kiss her breasts and offered her money for the

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The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.

Wiktionary

The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.

Wiktionary

In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.

Wiktionary

Do you think you can dance the mambo?

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