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Mambo vs Tango - What's the difference?

mambo | tango |

As nouns the difference between mambo and tango

is that mambo is mambo (music) while tango is tango.

mambo

English

(wikipedia mambo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba in the 1940s.
  • A fast-paced Latin American dance inspired by mambo music.

    • Derived terms

    * horizontal mambo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform this dance.

    • See also

    * * ----

    tango

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
  • The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
  • (slang) enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
  • A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

    • Verb

  • To dance the tango.
  • (slang) To handle, to flirt with, to deal with.

    • See also

    * it takes two to tango

    Anagrams

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