conga

For the dance:

• Borrowed from Spanish Congo (“Congo dance”) [from 1935], so-called for being assumedly of sub-Saharan African origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋɡə/
• (US) enPR: kängʹgə, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡə/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɡə
• Homophone: conger (non-rhotic accents)

conga (plural congas)

1. a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin
2. a march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain

• conga line

conga (third-person singular simple present congas, present participle congaing, simple past and past participle congaed)

1. To dance the conga.

• bunny hop

• Cogan

conga f (plural congas)

1. conga (dance)

• “conga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cogna

conga f (plural congas)

1. conga (dance)