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Latin dance
Answer for the clue "Latin dance ", 7 letters:
lambada
Alternative clues for the word lambada
- "Forbidden dance" popularized in the late 1980s
- Fast Brazilian dance - mad Baal
- The "forbidden dance" of the early '90s
- Brazilian fad dance of the '90s
- Gyrational dance
- Lesbian character accepting a dance
- Fast Brazilian dance — mad Baal (anag)
- Brazilian dance popular in the 1980s
- Popular Brazilian dance
Word definitions for lambada in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sensual Brazilian dance," 1988, from Portuguese, said in some sources to be literally "a beating, a lashing." But others connect it ultimately to Latin lumbus "loin."
Usage examples of lambada.
It was all part of the process of getting tuned in to the country, which we took seriously-so much so there was a strong rumor going around at one stage that the boys in B Squadron were taking lambada lessons at Bartestree Village Hall.
Some leggy Brazilian who Jackie bumped into doing the lambada in a suburban nightclub?
Those butterflies were dancing the lambada as he hardened against my right leg.
But the band had just struck up the first few notes of the lambada and Joe was maneuvering me around a tight turn.
Lambada watched as the centre started to bulge outwards into a convex shape.