mambo
noun
a fast ballroom dance of Caribbean origin, rhythmically similar to the rumba and cha-cha but having a more complex pattern of steps.
mambos
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pluralof mambo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“On Thursday night Champagne hour, I would come out and do all these mambos and things.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The repertory is bright and stylish: “Línea Recta,” Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s chic deconstruction of flamenco fashion and traditions, and “18+1,” a Gustavo Ramírez Sansano romp to Perez Prado mambos.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Musically, she showed uncommon adventurousness as well, singing everything from yodels and cowboy tunes to gospel standards, mambos, and torch ballads.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2018
Backed by his Latin big band with an assist from actor Andy Garcia on bongos, Sandoval played a high-energy set that included mambos both numbered and temperature-gauged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2017
But the buildings were here long before the mambos reigned, and who built them, or why, no one knows.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
