guaracha

American  

[gwuh-rah-chuh, gwah-rah-chah] / gwəˈrɑ tʃə, gwɑˈrɑ tʃɑ /

noun

• guarachas
  plural

1. a vigorous Cuban dance in triple meter.

2. the music for this dance.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• guarachas
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of guaracha

1820–30; < Spanish, equivalent to Old Spanish guar place + hacha a kind of dance

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Example Sentences

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guaracha guarachas

However, he was not too fond of the emerging term, which seemed to cram different styles like mambo, charanga, rumba, guaracha and danzón into one single category.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

As one of the originators of the post-revolutionary genre nueva trova, he combined elements of Cuban son and guaracha with soul, jazz and folk rock.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

She said “Pepas” exploded in popularity not because it’s about drugs but because it has a unique sound blending electronic dance music with guaracha, a popular Cuban music style.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

The program ended with yet another dance, a guaracha, by the 17th-century Mexican composer Juan García de Zéspedes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2020

She dances for days to her Beny More records, her hands in position for an impossibly lanky partner, to “Rebel Heart,” her slippers scraping the floor, to “Treat Me As I Am,” a buoyant guaracha.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Sometimes a woman’s voice broke through, and then the men shouted louder, glass shattered violently, and the songs on the jukebox went from boleros about betrayal to guarachas and merengues about the good life.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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