Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Brazilian ballroom dance in which the partners press against each other tightly and gyrate sensually.
- noun The music for this dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fast-paced,
erotic Brazilian dance in whichcouples dance with theirstomachs touching. - noun The
music to which it is danced. - noun A strong hit, the act of hitting someone/something with a piece of wood or club.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And we thought the lambada was the forbidden dance.
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You're five minutes from being the lambada of criminals.
John Bobey: Last Gasp: Q&A With Osama bin Laden John Bobey 2011
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I'd like to see him dance the lambada with Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, or Arianna Huffington.
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You're five minutes from being the lambada of criminals.
John Bobey: Last Gasp: Q&A With Osama bin Laden John Bobey 2011
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Best Shout-Out: Tom Bergeron drops by Tosh.0 to call Tosh's "sexy" lambada with Judson Laipply of the "Evolution of Dance" viral video during a Dancing with the Internet Stars segment.
Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman 2011
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Cultural barbarians were clamoring at the gate, eager to corrupt a venerable institution that gave the world Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Citizen Kane—and, to be fair, two competing films about the lambada that famously pitted Golan against Globus.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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May 4, 2009 slap-chop, the lambada and nkotb excluded
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A politician with no particular passion for leadership (the Sanford revision of conservative ideology: the governor who governs least has more time to be the star of his own "tragic," "forbidden," presumably lambada-laced love story), he now seems to be attempting, awkwardly, to evolve into the shirtless telenovela Casanova he always imagined himself to be.
Scott Brown: Mark Sanford: Reality Television Superstar 2009
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May 4, 2009 slap-chop, the lambada and nkotb excluded
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It looks more like the Thompson Twins teaching lambada at a retirement home in the late 80s.
GOP Congressman's Ad Hits Opponent's "San Francisco Values" -- With A Disco Beat 2009
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