[
US
/ˈkɔŋɡə/
]
[ UK /kənɡˈæ/ ]
[ UK /kənɡˈæ/ ]
VERB
- dance the conga
NOUN
- a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
- music composed for dancing the conga
How To Use conga In A Sentence
- But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
- There's as much boogie-woogie in its movements as conga and tango.
- Each man was surrounded by an absolute armada of percussion: Bongos, congas, sambas and tom toms; high-hats, kettles, timpani and snares.
- She was backed by acoustic guitar, bass and congas.
- Once I was in a conga line around the pool when my foreign editor called to discuss a trip to Helmand. Times, Sunday Times
- We linked arms and sang the Lambeth Walk and formed a conga line, there was laughter, and singing.
- He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga. Times, Sunday Times
- I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
- July 22, 2009 at 3:02 am conga rats, anni! purrhapz eh tryp tu teh ty buteek? Oh bringer of food, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- The last time I was in Henley on election night was 1992 - I went to conga round the town square, but the presence of policemen rather put me off.