guaracha
Americannoun
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guarachas
plural
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a vigorous Cuban dance in triple meter.
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the music for this dance.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of guaracha
1820–30; < Spanish, equivalent to Old Spanish guar place + hacha a kind of dance
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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
In a career that spanned six decades, he stitched together overlapping genres like rock, jazz and R&B and various Cuban genres like rumba, son and guaracha through intimate, soulful knowledge of both musical traditions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
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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