noun
pl. -·gos- a dance for couples, originated in South America, with long gliding steps and dips
- music for this dance in 2/4 or 4/4 time
Origin of tango
American Spanish to dance the tango
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tango
noun
pl. tan·gos- A dance of Argentine origin for couples in 2/4 or 4/4 time.
- The music for this dance.
intransitive verb
tan·goed, tan·go·ing, tan·gosTo perform this dance.
Origin of tango
American Spanish possibly of Niger-Congo origin Ibibio tamgu to danceRelated Forms:
- tan′go·like′
adjective
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Noun
(plural tangos or tangoes)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present tangoes, present participle tangoing, simple past and past participle tangoed)
- To dance the tango.
- (slang) To handle, to flirt with, to deal with.
Origin
Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu (“to dance")).
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tango - Computer Definition
(1) An augmented reality platform. See Google Tango.
(2) A phone and video calling application over Wi-Fi or cellular for Windows PCs, Windows Phone, iPhone and Android from TangoME, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (www.tango.me). Callers can record a video message if the recipient does not answer. Tango competes with the hugely popular Skype and FaceTime video calling services.
(3) The code name for a minor update to Version 7.5 of Windows Phone. See Windows Phone.
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Sentence Examples
- If you're a small business, for example a small dance studio, you'd be better off creating a couple of 5-minute videos - one being how to tango dance and one being how to salsa dance - and posting those videos on YouTube.
- The dance step illustrations that serve International style (and many other ballroom styles of dance) so well do not begin to communicate the tempo, sense of connection, or dynamic tension of the Argentine tango.
- For as long as social dance has been around, these illustrations have been used by teachers to reinforce the lessons, and also been used by novice dancers to get started on learning the basic steps in the tango.
- Interracial Tango is at least up front about being a "network" of sites, which simply pulls the members together out of a large database and makes matches including people who are not of the same skin color.
- Paris was the launching pad for tango to come to Europe, but the dance form soon spread to other major European capitols and by 1913 it had crossed the Atlantic again and was appearing in U.S. dance halls.
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