Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
cha-cha .
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- noun
cha-cha
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips
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Examples
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"It's all about the look and absolutely no dancing whatsoever: six-eighths of just standing while Ola dances around you isn't what I'd call a cha-cha-cha."
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning 2011
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Lulu managed to perform a cha-cha-cha that consisted of walking and sass, the dance steps apparently awol.
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America has always loved Latin American dance music – from tango to cha-cha-cha to bossa nova – but none of these crazes were quite as big as mambo.
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Being with Michael was an emotional cha-cha-cha; every time we stepped forward together, we marched just as quickly backward.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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Nancy and Edwina could go either way – when I try to imagine either of them showing the judges their cha-cha-cha hips, my head starts hurting and I have to think about something else.
Strictly Come Dancing 2011: who will be this year's dancefloor diva - and disaster? 2011
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Being with Michael was an emotional cha-cha-cha; every time we stepped forward together, we marched just as quickly backward.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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America has always loved Latin American dance music – from tango to cha-cha-cha to bossa nova – but none of these crazes were quite as big as mambo.
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On Saturday night, Robbie and his partner Ola were tasked with performing the cha-cha-cha, a dance of Cuban origin that apparently involves a bewildered looking man in a black rhinestone-studded hoodie standing ram-rod straight and occasionally flapping his arms about, while his partner gyrates suggestively around him in a manner not dissimilar to a naked Britt Ekland on the other side of Edward Woodward's hotel‑room wall in The Wicker Man.
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning 2011
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The same way that North American big band jazz is closely intertwined with popular dance music, Latin Jazz does a perennial cha-cha-cha back-and-forth with salsa and mambo and other terpsichorean forms.
The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board Will Friedwald 2012
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Considering he has only three weeks of training and one cha-cha-cha under his sequinned belt, it would be easy to make fun of Robbie's maiden excursion on Strictly, so that is exactly what we will do.
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning 2011
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