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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mambo.

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Examples

  • There were encores, standing ovations, and even an audience member who mamboed spontaneously this is New Orleans, after all as the orchestra played a selection of Leonard Bernstein's dances.

    Ben Rosen: Classical Music Economics: Is There a Solution? Ben Rosen 2011

  • There were encores, standing ovations, and even an audience member who mamboed spontaneously this is New Orleans, after all as the orchestra played a selection of Leonard Bernstein's dances.

    Ben Rosen: Classical Music Economics: Is There a Solution? Ben Rosen 2011

  • I mamboed myself to the point of exhaustion for the next three days and, taking the advice of the costume designer, decided to make my appearance a little more va-va-voom.

    'Getting a Grip: On My Mind, My Body, My Self' 2009

  • We're going to find out tonight if Heather Mills mamboed her way into the hearts of America.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007 2007

  • The Broadway musical "In the Heights" mamboed, hustled and merengued into the Naples Philharmonic Center on Monday, leaving a lasting impression on the audience - and in the most subtle and caring way bringing up issues about my identity I had not pondered for many years.

    marconews.com Stories ALBERTO SABINA 2010

  • Sotomayor has mamboed with movie stars, exchanged smooches with musicians at the White House and thrown out the first pitch for her beloved New York Yankees.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • I'm not counting Hispanics in this calculus, because a) Obama hasn't exactly mamboed away with the Latino vote, and b) I can research every last niggling bicameral demographic, or I can watch Hell's Kitchen: I can't do both.

    David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean. 2008

  • With his reputation as one of the nation’s foremost younger hair-splitters, Justice Roberts mamboed through the confirmation ordeal, flicking off the cleverest jurisprudential traps set for him by the nitpickiest lawyers in the Senate.

    Cronyism on the Court? What a Shocking Thought! 2005

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