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单词 mambo
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mambo

enUK

mam·bo

M0067700 (mäm′bō)n. pl. mam·bos 1. A dance in 4/4 time of Latin American origin, resembling the rumba.2. The music for this dance.intr.v. mam·boed, mam·bo·ing, mam·bos To perform this dance.
[Cuban Spanish, from Haitian Creole manbo, voodoo priestess (the extended drum breaks in mambo music being likened by Cuban musicians to a voodoo priestess's ecstatic trance), perhaps from Kongo màmbu, message, conversation, ritual negotiation, plural of diàmbu, word.]

mambo

(ˈmæmbəʊ) n, pl -bos1. (Dancing) a modern Latin American dance, resembling the rumba, derived from the ritual dance of voodoo2. (Other Non-Christian Religions) a voodoo priestessvb, -bos, -boing or -boed (Dancing) (intr) to perform the mambo[American Spanish, probably from Haitian Creole: voodoo priestess]

mam•bo

(ˈmɑm boʊ)

n., pl. -bos, n. 1. a ballroom dance of Caribbean origin similar to the rumba and cha-cha. v.i. 2. to dance the mambo. [1945–50; < American Spanish]

mambo


Past participle: mamboed
Gerund: mamboing
Imperative
mambo
mambo
Present
I mambo
you mambo
he/she/it mambos
we mambo
you mambo
they mambo
Preterite
I mamboed
you mamboed
he/she/it mamboed
we mamboed
you mamboed
they mamboed
Present Continuous
I am mamboing
you are mamboing
he/she/it is mamboing
we are mamboing
you are mamboing
they are mamboing
Present Perfect
I have mamboed
you have mamboed
he/she/it has mamboed
we have mamboed
you have mamboed
they have mamboed
Past Continuous
I was mamboing
you were mamboing
he/she/it was mamboing
we were mamboing
you were mamboing
they were mamboing
Past Perfect
I had mamboed
you had mamboed
he/she/it had mamboed
we had mamboed
you had mamboed
they had mamboed
Future
I will mambo
you will mambo
he/she/it will mambo
we will mambo
you will mambo
they will mambo
Future Perfect
I will have mamboed
you will have mamboed
he/she/it will have mamboed
we will have mamboed
you will have mamboed
they will have mamboed
Future Continuous
I will be mamboing
you will be mamboing
he/she/it will be mamboing
we will be mamboing
you will be mamboing
they will be mamboing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been mamboing
you have been mamboing
he/she/it has been mamboing
we have been mamboing
you have been mamboing
they have been mamboing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been mamboing
you will have been mamboing
he/she/it will have been mamboing
we will have been mamboing
you will have been mamboing
they will have been mamboing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been mamboing
you had been mamboing
he/she/it had been mamboing
we had been mamboing
you had been mamboing
they had been mamboing
Conditional
I would mambo
you would mambo
he/she/it would mambo
we would mambo
you would mambo
they would mambo
Past Conditional
I would have mamboed
you would have mamboed
he/she/it would have mamboed
we would have mamboed
you would have mamboed
they would have mamboed

mambo

A Cuban dance, the mambo is fast, syncopated and the partners move fairly independently from each other.
Thesaurus
Noun1.mambo - a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumbadancing, terpsichore, dance, saltation - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
Verb1.mambo - dance a mambotrip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance - move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"
Translations

mambo

enUK

horizontal mambo

slang The act of sex, especially sexual intercourse. My brother spends his weekends cruising the bars around town in hopes of doing the horizontal mambo with someone.See also: horizontal, mambo

mattress mambo

slang An act or instance of sexual intercourse. After flirting at the bar for a while, we went back to my place for a little bit of mattress mambo. My roommate's girlfriend is in town for the weekend, and I've had to listen to them doing the mattress mambo every since she got here.See also: mambo, mattress

mattress mambo

n. an act of copulation. (Contrived.) I get my exercise doing the mattress mambo. See also: mambo, mattress

mambo

enUK

mambo

1. a modern Latin American dance, resembling the rumba, derived from the ritual dance of voodoo 2. a voodoo priestess

Mambo

A popular open source content management system (CMS) that is used to create and manage websites. Written in PHP and using the MySQL database, Mambo was released in 2001 by Peter Lamont of Miro Construct Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia. In 2005, it was turned over to the Mambo Foundation (www.mambo-foundation.org). See Joomla! and content management system.

MAMBO


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MAMBOMax-Planck-Millimeter-Bolometer
MAMBOModern Art Museum of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
MAMBOMediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology
MAMBOMulti-Service Wireless Network with Bandwidth Optimization

mambo

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  • verb

Words related to mambo

noun a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba

Related Words

  • dancing
  • terpsichore
  • dance
  • saltation

verb dance a mambo

Related Words

  • trip the light fantastic
  • trip the light fantastic toe
  • dance
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