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lambada Definition


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lambada
noun lambadas
    1. A Brazilian dance in which couples make fast erotic hip movements.
    2. The music for this style of dancing, influenced by salsa, calypso and reggae.
Etymology: 1990s: Portuguese, meaning ‘a crack of a whip'; the dance became popular outside Brazil only after the film Dirty Dancing (1987).



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