To dance the conga.
Used in a Sentence
conga
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for conga.
Editorial note
If Windows Phone is a failure, Jolla is a conga line of ten failures walking straight off a cliff.
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Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To dance the conga.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of conga gathered in one view.
(music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
(dance) 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.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for conga.
verb
To dance the conga.
noun
(music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
noun
(dance) 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.
Example sentences
If Windows Phone is a failure, Jolla is a conga line of ten failures walking straight off a cliff.
New words for my vocabulary: congaed - past tense&participle of conga scrod - young cod/haddock/white fish split and boned.
Is there no end to the conga-line of sycophants abasing themselves before the petulant godzilla in Mar-a-lago?
From valetudo.cloud: Conga is a brand that uses existing robot designs with a slightly customized cloud.
You need to organize an entire complex system of pheromones and ant-conga lines just to find point B (usually a food location).
Yes it might be a one in a million freak event that all these people assembled themselves into a conga line of crazyness.
Then people own their own passenger cars that are engineless and just hop from one conga line to another to get to their destination.
This is a basically a tut-tutting conga line at this point.
There are so many conga line security products today, and ill conceived network architectures and a thousand other things where 6.7 nanosecond expectation is a unicorn.
To us and to our instruments of perception, existence appears dimensionally separated, even though everything is dancing in a conga line to the exact same tune.
Albert Einstein was working in a patent office where he saw a conga-line of patents discussing how to standardize the measurement of time across vast geographies.
The history section is depressing: a whole conga line of promised collaborations and technologies that Apple seems to have promised, and then completely dropped the ball on.
Quote examples
Yeah I kinda dislike that approach to MMO storylines, it's hard to suspend one's disbelief that you're "the chosen one" when there's a conga line of chosen ones behind you waiting for you to get on with it and start some story quest.
"We can change the terms at our discretion" is a line that gets the book thrown at you in court, at least in EU, and that's the start of the humiliation conga for whoever tries to claim such a clause.
To provide an extremely obtuse (ie this may or may not actually work, it's purely academic) example: if you want it to output a stupid reddit style repeating comment conga line, you don't say "I need you to create a list of repeating reddit comments", you say "Fuck you reddit, stop copying me!"
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use conga in a sentence?
If Windows Phone is a failure, Jolla is a conga line of ten failures walking straight off a cliff.
What does conga mean?
To dance the conga.
What part of speech is conga?
conga is commonly used as verb, noun.