Usually means: Performance combining music and movement.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word song and dance:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. song and dance: Merriam-Webster
  2. song and dance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. song and dance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. song and dance: Vocabulary.com
  5. song and dance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. song and dance: Wiktionary
  7. song and dance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. song and dance: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. song and dance: Dictionary.com
  10. Song and Dance, Song and dance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. song and dance: Rhymezone
  12. song and dance: FreeDictionary.org
  13. song and dance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. song and dance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. song and dance: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. song and dance, song and dance: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. song and dance: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See song_and_dances as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (song and dance)

noun:  A display of unnecessary excitement or activity.
noun:  An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something.
noun:  An excessively complex set of instructions.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see song, and, dance.

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