Meaning

1 senses

  1. To perform this dance.

    dance a mambo

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Do you think you can dance the mambo?

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Origin

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)),

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

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Forms

mambos, mamboing, mamboed, mamboed
Base formmambo · to mambo
3rd person singularmambos
Present participlemamboing
Past simplemamboed
Past participlemamboed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymambo
he, she, itmambos

Past simpleLesson

all personsmamboed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mamboed
he, she, ithas mamboed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mambo

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mamaB2mambamammaB2mammalmammoth

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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