Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dance of Latin-American origin in which the dancers form a long winding line.
- noun The music for this dance.
- noun A conga drum.
- intransitive verb To perform this dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun music composed for dancing the conga.
- noun a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a tall, narrow, single-headed
Cuban hand drum ofAfrican origin - noun a
march of Cuban origin infour-four time in which people form achain , each holding thehips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and thenkick alternate legsoutwards at thebeat ; the chainweaves around the place and allows newparticipants to join the back of the chain - verb To dance the conga.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun music composed for dancing the conga
- noun a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
- verb dance the conga
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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*forms into cheezburger shape* *omnomnomnom* Hmm. still hungree. *lions up conga rats* *makes them conga* *puts mowf at end of conga lion* Ohhhhh noeeesss i ated teh conga rats and nao i has a sick!
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OPPENHEIM: And they go in what you call a conga line?
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Nobody has joined yet, so if you sign up in the next few days you’ll probably get a bunch of FREE referrals, especially since the person who started the conga is almost finished!
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He has a bright red shukha blanket draped over his shoulder and a baton-like weapon, called a conga, tucked in his belt.
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Ginny had a mini-stroke, and now walks sideways to a kind of conga beat in her head.
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Mr. NOZ: D.C. has always been a go-go city, which is a, you know, a style of music that's -- it's derived from funk and kind of conga driven.
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One of my favorite moments finds Eric Burdon asked to lead his fellow Animals in a kind of conga line toward Unsworth's camera as "House of the Rising Sun" charges toward its crescendic finale; as a straight-faced Burdon relates his story of a man brought low, guitarist Hilton Valentine, visible just behind him, can't resist cracking up at the absurdity of what they're doing to promote their record.
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One of my favorite moments finds Eric Burdon asked to lead his fellow Animals in a kind of conga line toward Unsworth's camera as "House of the Rising Sun" charges toward its crescendic finale; as a straight-faced Burdon relates his story of a man brought low, guitarist Hilton Valentine, visible just behind him, can't resist cracking up at the absurdity of what they're doing to promote their record.
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Now that's the kind of conga line you want on your radio.
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The performance was a 20-minute introduction to the artistic principles and driving aesthetics of hip-hop culture, starting with naked rhythm from a conga drum, then showing the evolution of the rhythm into the DJs scratching with turntables and vinyl records.
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