lambada

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  1. noun A Brazilian ballroom dance in which the partners press against each other tightly and gyrate sensually.
  2. noun Music for performing this dance.

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  • Assuming you can post bail (and weren't littering, say, fragments of prostitutes 'skulls), your first lambada with the law is liable to be brief. —  Thumbscrews
  • By this time, the party has escalated to lambada music, and everyone (except the main characters:) seem to be generally having a great time. —  AllYourTV.com: Your Complete Guide To All Things TV
  • Itching to break out your lambada and tango skills? —  NY1 - Top Stories
  • The thing I least expected is the dirty lambada of destruction being danced, as we speak, by global warming and the common North American Toxicodendron radicans. —  Boing Boing
  • Celebrities and their professional dance partners introduced viewers to the bolero, Charleston, two step and lambada. —  Ledger-Enquirer: Breaking News
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  1. Portuguese, beating, lashing, from past participle of lambar, to beat, variant of lombar, probably from lombo, side, flank (of a horse), from Latin lumbus, loin.
 

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