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Tango
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(tangos, tangoing, tangoed) 1. The tango is a South American dance in which two people hold each other closely, walk quickly in one direction, then walk quickly back again. N-SING: usu the N 2. A tango is a piece of music intended for tango dancing. A tango was playing on the jukebox... The sounds of tango filled the air. N-VAR 3. If you tango, you dance the tango. They can rock and roll, they can tango, but they can’t bop. VERB: V 4. it takes two to tango: see two
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I. noun (plural ~s) Etymology: American Spanish Date: 1913 1. a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin in 2/4 time with a basic pattern of step-step-step-step-close and characterized by long pauses and stylized body positions; also the music for this dance 2. interaction marked by a lack of straightforwardness the suspect's ~ with police II. intransitive verb Date: 1913 to dance the ~ TANGO Date: 1952 — a communications code word for the letter t ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. (pl. -os) 1 a slow S. American ballroom dance. 2 the music for this. --v.intr. (-oes, -oed) dance the tango. Etymology: Amer. Sp. 2. n. a tangerine colour. Etymology: abbr. after TANGO(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~1 n plural tangos a lively dance from South America, or a piece of music for this dance ~2 v 1 to dance the tango 2 it takes two to tango spoken used to say that if a problem involves two people then both people are equally responsible tank ~1 n 1 a large container for storing liquid or gas (The hot water tank is leaking. | fish tank (=for keeping fish in) | petrol tank BrE /gas tank AmE (=part of a vehicle for holding petrol)) 2 also tankful the amount of liquid or gas held in a tank (I'll do over 400 miles on a full tank.) 3 a heavy military vehicle that has a large gun and runs on two metal belts fitted over its wheels 4 a large artificial pool for storing water (- see also thinktank, septic tank) ~2 v tank up phr v especially AmE to put petrol in your car so that the tank is full ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1913, from Argentine Sp. tango, originally the name of an African-American drum dance, probably from a Niger-Congo language (cf. Ibibio tamgu "to dance"). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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