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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salsa
noun
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▪ Add mango, salsa and raisin; mix well.
▪ And while both parts are perfectly good, I prefer pita with hummus and my salsa with chips.
▪ And, of course, what would salsa be without a little dip.
▪ Every table is treated to a basket of warm pita bread accompanied by a spunky tomatillo salsa.
▪ Like the pita and salsa, the combination isn't a natural.
▪ Smallish venue by the canal with a range of nights, although the emphasis is on uplifting house through to salsa.
▪ Tabitha's headset suddenly locked into an ambient channel and began to tinkle with tinny salsa.
▪ Today, accessories are as hot as chili salsa served at a tango contest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salsa

kind of sauce, 1846; kind of dance music, 1975, from Spanish, literally "sauce," from Vulgar Latin *salsa "condiment" (see sauce (n.)). In American Spanish especially used of a kind of relish with chopped-up ingredients; the music so called from its blend of Latin jazz and rock styles.

Wiktionary
salsa

n. 1 (context countable English) A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers. 2 (context uncountable music English) A style of music originally from Cuba heavily influenced by Spanish rhythms and jazz. 3 (context countable dance English) Any of several dances performed to salsa music. vb. (context intransitive English) To dance the sals

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WordNet
salsa

n. spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods

Wikipedia
Salsa

Salsa may refer to:

  • Salsa (sauce)
  • Salsa music
  • Salsa (dance)
Salsa (dance)

Salsa is a popular form of social dance that originated in New York City with strong influences from Latin America, particularly Puerto Rico. The movements of salsa have origins in Son, Cha-cha-cha, Mambo and other dance forms, and the dance, along with the salsa music, originated in the mid-1970s in New York.

Salsa (sauce)

Salsa is the Italian and Spanish term for sauce, and in English-speaking countries usually refers to the sauces typical of Mexican cuisine known as salsa picante, particularly those used as dips.

Salsa is often a tomato-based sauce or dip which is heterogeneous and includes additional components such as onions, chilies, beans, corn, and various spices. They are typically piquant, ranging from mild to extremely hot.

SALSA (programming language)

The SALSA programming language (Simple Actor Language System and Architecture) is an actor-oriented programming language that uses concurrency primitives beyond asynchronous message passing, including token-passing, join, and first-class continuations. It also supports distributed computing over the Internet with universal naming, remote communication, and migration linguistic abstractions and associated middleware. For portability, it produces Java code.

Salsa (1988 film)

Salsa is a 1988 romance film about a lower-class Puerto Rican dancer who decides to improve his lot in life by entering a salsa dancing contest. The film was directed by Boaz Davidson, and stars Robby Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado and Miranda Garrison. It earned a Razzie Award nomination for Rosa as Worst New Star.

Salsa (2000 film)

Salsa or ¡Salsa! is a 2000 French- Spanish romance film. The film was directed by Joyce Buñuel, and stars Vincent Lecoeur, Christianne Gout, and Catherine Samie.

Salsa (EP)

Salsa is an EP by American alternative rock band Residual Kid, which was released April 8, 2016. It was produced by Grammy-nominated Chris "Frenchie" Smith. To celebrate the release, the band held an EP release show at The Hi-Dive in Denver, Colorado. The song Scentless Princess was released as the lead single from the EP, with a video directed by Joshua Logan and Michael Anthony Gibson.

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Usage examples of "salsa".

Arrange the scrambled eggs down the middle, then top with the scallions, avocado, salsa, sour cream, and cilantro if you have some in the house.

Green Lake in the morning, and I salsa dance three or four nights a week.

The outfit she wore salsa dancing had barely any blouse and even less skirt.

To keep myself occupied and awake, I tried putting all the little pieces together: salsa dancing and Sobibor.

I told myself it came from just watching all that salsa dancing, but it probably had a lot more to do with stumbling around in the dark out at the Camano Island fire two nights before.

The salsa band quit, and a couple of skinny tattooed guys started juggling torches and moonwalking at the same time.

Doheny Library subbasement, memories of gunshots and screams and salsa filled his head.

Christmas Eve, complete with barbecued meat, salsa records, liquor, fireworks, and colored lights.

Once, after breakfast, he put a salsa tape in the cassette player and danced without a break, and with frenetic energy, until the end of his shift.

Use the strips for a Chili Lime Pork Salad or a Chili Lime Pork Omelet, or just wrap them up in low-carb tortillas with a little salsa and sour cream.

I found a pile of dish towels neatly stacked in a broom closet, wet one and used it to mop the salsa off his wound, then filled another with ice cubes, and placed it under his arm.

Tom and his dad decided on a large plate of nachos and the house salsa, reputed to be hotter than hades, to occupy us until the rest of the food arrived.

Finishing our repertory of salsa stories, we moved to recent history, and Tom asked me about the progress of my investigations.

Off to the left was the bandstand, where a twelve-piece band gyrated to the infectious salsa rhythms that they played.

Fitzpatrick motioned to the mass of gyrating, swirling bodies pulsating to the salsa beat on the ballroom floor.