apache dance

[ uh-pahsh, uh-pashor, often, uh-pach-ee ]

noun

1. a vigorous dance representing a Parisian apache dancing in a rough, domineering way with his woman.

apache dance

noun

1. a fast violent dance in French vaudeville, supposedly between a Parisian gangster and his girl

Example Sentences

He sprang from his chair and whirled and jerked about the room in a kind of wild Apache dance.

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