Meaning

3 senses
  1. A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.

    a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line

  2. A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.

    (broadly)"Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan.

    Cancan

    канка́нkankán

  3. A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

Translations

6 languages
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Origin

Borrowed from French cancan.

Borrowed from French cancan.

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Forms

plural: cancans
Singularcancan
Pluralcancans

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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