Usually means: Latin dance with Cuban origins.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. mambo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mambo: Merriam-Webster
  3. mambo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mambo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mambo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mambo: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mambo, mambo: Wordnik
  8. mambo: Wiktionary
  9. mambo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mambo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mambo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mambo: Dictionary.com
  13. mambo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mambo (CMS), Mambo (Vodou), Mambo (Voodoo), Mambo (album), Mambo (dance), Mambo (film), Mambo (music), Mambo (software), Mambo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. mambo: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mambo: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. mambo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. mambo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dance (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Mambo (music), mambo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MAMBO: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mambo: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mamboed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
noun:  A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform this dance.

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