macarena

[mah-kuh-rey-nuh, ‑-ren-uh]

noun

1. (often initial capital letter),  a dance performed in a group line or solo and following a rhythmic pattern of arm, hand, and hip movements in time to a Spanish song.

Word History and Origins

Origin of macarena¹

1990–95; < Spanish: feminine of macareno boaster, braggart

Example Sentences

Sure, Neo nearly toppled over while closing the dishwasher, took two minutes to fold the shirt and twisted its arm attempting to dance the Macarena.

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They even let me drive—until I nearly dislocated Neo’s arm trying to make it do the Macarena.

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A former teacher who swore at pupils and danced the Macarena while under the influence of alcohol in a classroom has been banned from teaching in Wales.

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“Please send in the Marines before they start doing the Cha Cha and the Macarena!”

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Mooney and co-writer Evan Winter fuse the “let’s throw a big party” plot formula to “The Terminator” for their “Y2K” script, but it also feels like they just wrote down everything they could remember from the late ’90s and threw it at the wall: Enron, the “Macarena,” PalmPilots, Limp Bizkit, the swing revival.

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