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Latin American dance
Answer for the clue "Latin American dance ", 7 letters:
cha-cha
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Word definitions for cha-cha in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also cha-cha-cha , type of Latin-American 3-beat ballroom dance, 1954, echoic of the music.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips [syn: cha-cha-cha ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cha-cha \cha-cha\ n. a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; it uses two slow steps followed by three quick small steps, with swaying movements of the hips, and has many variations of movements based on that rhythm. Syn: cha-cha.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cha-Cha , Cha Cha , ChaCha or Chacha may refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ During informal moments, Jiang has been known to do the cha-cha .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm. 2 The music for this dance. vb. (context intransitive English) To dance the cha-ch
Usage examples of cha-cha.
Scores of Louis XIIIs, XIVs, XVs, and XVIs were dancing sedately with Annes of Austria and Marie Antoinettes to the strains of rhumba and cha-cha.
The former husband was a nightclub comedian of Puerto Rican extraction named Jerry Cha-cha Rivera, who was shot as an innocent bystander during the robbery of a RAMJAC carwash in Hollywood.
It was Freddy Cannon, that bebop summertime avatar of Savin Rock: 'She's dancin to the drag, the cha-cha rag-a-mop, she's stompin to the shag, rocks the bunny hop .
Scott mistook them for Optera cha-chas at first-the Flower of Life Pollinators-then realized that they were rabbits.
Kitty Litter, Sofonda Peters, and the Vivacious Vivienne VaVane, their faces shining with moisturizer and egg-white facials, they listen to that step-to-three cha-cha music you only hear on elevators anymore.
After ten years of stowing away my problems so the caseworker couldn't monkey around with them, all I have to do is dance the Cha-Cha with some girl and even my chronic stealing is gone.
The blinds aren't ever open, and there are maybe a dozen of those cha-cha records stacked on the automatic record changer.