tango
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A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
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A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
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A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
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A piece of music suited to such a dance.
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A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine
Etimologia
Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance”)).
verbo
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To dance the tango.
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gergoTo mingle or interact (with each other).
Creamy cheese, tangy-sweet peppers, and a hit of heat tango in this sexy deviled-egg combo.
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gergoA target; an enemy.
Tango down!
The two tangoes running toward the carnage at the prison door dropped simultaneously, dead in their tracks.
Knight, your flight plan is set. It'll be a two-hour trip to the tango, flying tea-kettle.
The sharp crack of breaking glass preceded Emily's calm voice. "One tango dead and Marcus is down, John."
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Variante di Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic AlphabetAlternative letter-case form of Tango from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Etimologia
From translingual Tango (representing the letter T), from English tango (see above).
Forme
- plurale
- tangos, tangoes
- passato
- tangoed
- participio passato
- tangoed
- participio presente
- tangoing
- 3ª persona singolare
- tangoes
tango · A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
Tango · A surname.tania · New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium).Tania · A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.