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salsa

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsæl.sə//
  • United States//ˈsɑl.sə//

A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.

noun

  1. 1

    A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.

  2. 2

    A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.

    The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.

  3. 3

    Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

Etymology

PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).

verb

  1. 1

    To dance the salsa.

    They salsaed late until the night.

Forms

plural
salsas
past tense
salsaed
past participle
salsaed
present participle
salsaing
third person singular
salsas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).