waltz

noun

1. 1

   A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.

   Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.

2. 2

   A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).

3. 3

   informalA simple task.

verb

1. 1

   To dance the waltz (with).

   They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.

   While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.

   "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

2. 2

   To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.

   He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.

   You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!

   Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.

   The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.

3. 3

   informalTo accomplish a task with little effort.

   Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.

4. 4

   To move with fanfare.

   And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.

Forms

plural

waltzes

past tense

waltzed

past participle

waltzed

present participle

waltzing

third person singular

waltzes