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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cha-cha
noun
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▪ During informal moments, Jiang has been known to do the cha-cha.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cha-cha

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cha-cha

also cha-cha-cha, type of Latin-American 3-beat ballroom dance, 1954, echoic of the music.

Wiktionary
cha-cha

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

WordNet
cha-cha

n. a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips [syn: cha-cha-cha]

Wikipedia
Cha-Cha

Cha-Cha, Cha Cha, ChaCha or Chacha may refer to:

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.