Look up: Rumba

1. rumba
   1) Afro-Cuban street drumming and dancing noted for dense, virtuoso percussion and subtle, sexually suggestive dancing. Main formns are guaguanco, yambu and columbia. 2) Congolese dance music of the 1940s-70s, the generation of Dr. Nico, Grand Kalle, and Franco. Strongly influenced by Cuban music. Precursor of soukous.
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2. rumba
   [n] - syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba 2. [n] - a rhythmic syncopated Cuban folk dance in duple time 3. [n] - a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
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3. Rumba
   Cuban percussion-based music and dance complex comprising: yambú, a slower more stately partner dance; guaguancó, a quick tempo partner dance featuring a sexual motif performed by the male called vacunao; and columbia, a virtuoso solo dance performed by males sometimes with blades as props. Rumba ...
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4. rumba
   rhumba noun a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
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5. rumba
   rhumba noun syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
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6. rumba
   ballroom dance of Afro-Cuban folk-dance origin that became internationally popular in the early 20th century. Best known for the dancers` subtle side ...
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7. rumba
   
   • a rhythmic syncopated Cuban folk dance in duple time
   • a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
   
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8. rumba
   Afro-Cuban traditional secular dance and music genre, rendered by vocals with percussion, providing complex syncopated rhythms. It has a characteristic quick-quick-slow dance movement and a repetitive melody accompanied by an ostinato (persistently repeating) one-bar pattern played on the maracas. The dance emphasizes the hip and sh...
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9. Rumba
   Ownship maneuvering and ranging (OMAR), F-15 angle on ranging (AOR), F-16.
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10. Rumba
    `Rumba` is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish colonizers. The name derives from the Cuban Spanish word rumbo which means "party" or "spree". It ...
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11. Rumba
    (dance) `Rumba` is a dance term with two quite different meanings. In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for "Afro-Cuban" rumba, a group of dances related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguancó.. The other Afro...
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