mambo
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- n a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumba
- v dance a mambo
- In the land of Fujiyama, harakiri, paper houses and the ritualized courtesy of the tea ceremony, everybody seemed to be doing the mambo.
- To their horrified elders, the new mambo-garu (mambo girl) was little better than the new sutorippu, or stripteaser, who was rivaling the traditional geisha as a professional .
- Triumphant, they rolled through the first village singing mambo tunes.