lambadan.
/lamˈbɑːdə/, U.S. /læmˈbɑdə/ A fast, rhythmical, and erotic dance of Brazilian origin, danced by couples in close physical contact; also, the music to which it is danced. Occasionally figurative.
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lambada1988
1988 Financial Times 15 Sept. iv. p. viii/1 Sao Paulo's current cultural explosion is the lambada—a lithe, lascivious Caribbean dance that first arrived in the 1930s and was banned by the then-government as obscene.
1989 Los Angeles Times 18 Nov. f1/2 Lambada brings couple dancing back with a vengeance.
1990 Times 2 Apr. 8/3 The catchy lambada song now has Latin America and the seaboard cities of the US in its grip.
1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxi. 229 The authentic Green Corn Dance..was politely discarded as too solemn and repetitious; instead Golden Sun danced the lambada.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 28 Mar. b1/2 I'm trying to act and sound calm..but my nerves are doing the lambada.
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