Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Brazilian ballroom dance in which the partners press against each other tightly and gyrate sensually.
- n. Music for performing this dance.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Portuguese lambada (strong slap, hit) (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And we thought the lambada was the forbidden dance.”
“I'd like to see him dance the lambada with Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, or Arianna Huffington.”
“Best Shout-Out: Tom Bergeron drops by Tosh.0 to call Tosh's "sexy" lambada with Judson Laipply of the "Evolution of Dance" viral video during a Dancing with the Internet Stars segment.”
Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman
“You're five minutes from being the lambada of criminals.”
The Huffington Post: John Bobey: Last Gasp: Q&A With Osama bin Laden
“Cultural barbarians were clamoring at the gate, eager to corrupt a venerable institution that gave the world Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Citizen Kane—and, to be fair, two competing films about the lambada that famously pitted Golan against Globus.”
“It looks more like the Thompson Twins teaching lambada at a retirement home in the late 80s.”
GOP Congressman's Ad Hits Opponent's "San Francisco Values" -- With A Disco Beat
“May 4, 2009 slap-chop, the lambada and nkotb excluded”
“A politician with no particular passion for leadership (the Sanford revision of conservative ideology: the governor who governs least has more time to be the star of his own "tragic," "forbidden," presumably lambada-laced love story), he now seems to be attempting, awkwardly, to evolve into the shirtless telenovela Casanova he always imagined himself to be.”
“After all, he was young and had nothing to hide, shouldn't he celebrate by wrapping his manhood in something that made my libido lambada?”
“A colorful mix of hard news, scandal, sports and comics, the first issue of the weekly has stories about a scheme to sell Soviet tnaks abroad for condoms and pantyhose, the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.S.R., (the lambada and X-rated video clubs) and the first U.S. soccer player to sign with a Soviet team.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lambada’.
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Palabras con una sola vocal
Lista de palabras en español que tienen una sóla vocal y con más de tres sÃlabas.
imprimir, horóscopo, palabras, odontólogo, entender, acababa, abracadabra, joropo, encender, apagar, endeble, neceser and 244 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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One Left Footer's Manifesto
I was tragically born with an extra left foot. If I weren't so debilitated, this would be my to-do list.
cha cha, tango, waltz, fox trot, limbo, square dance, line dance, mosh, breakdance, pop and lock, robot, salsa and 98 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Dance Magic Dance
Styles of dance
ballet, tango, waltz, salsa, polka, swing, charleston, foxtrot, jitterbug, tap, quickstep, mambo and 101 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 145
abandon, headquarters, lambada, association, catch on, sort, primal, deep-seated, sticky, rightful, technically, close and 55 more...
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Ovine affairs
clambake, flamboyant, zalambdodont, bramble, marjoram, lambada, lambrequin, clamber, epigram, lambda calculus, zwartbles, pelibüey and 83 more...
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dance dance revolution
interesting dances
maxixe, lambada, rhumba, samba, tango, cha cha cha, square, lundu, mambo, polka, hora, waltz and 59 more...
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