Meaning

4 senses
  1. A type of dance in which participants use dance moves that mimic the undead, often combined with a masquerade and costumes.

  2. A ritual Caribbean dance in which participants enter a trance state and symbolically die and are born again.

  3. (figuratively)A sequence of events leading to someone feeling dead inside, and the actions of the individual as they experience that sequence.

  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, dance.; a dance performed by zombies.

Origin

(dancing in the style of a zombie): Popularized by Michael Jackson in the music video Thri

(dancing in the style of a zombie): Popularized by Michael Jackson in the music video Thriller (1983).

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Forms

plural: zombie dances
Singularzombie dance
Pluralzombie dances

regular

See also

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