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mambo

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mambo.

Editorial note

This doesn't happen often, but it has happened before, with Mambo and Joomla, and Hudson and Jenkins.

Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mambo gathered in one view.

noun

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

noun

A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

verb

(intransitive) To perform this dance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mambo.

noun

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

noun

A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

verb

(intransitive) To perform this dance.

Example sentences

1

This doesn't happen often, but it has happened before, with Mambo and Joomla, and Hudson and Jenkins.

2

They’d hire a dancing instructor to teach them the mambo, the cha-cha, the twist, whatever was popular.

3

Don't try to roll your own, and don't try to roll out community software like phpnuke, mambo or joomla.

4

The codebase has evolved, copyright notices have been changed, and there isn't credit back to Mambo on the website.

5

But often it is with people that just won't shut up with their technical mambo-jambo of how great something-something is.

6

As a result, the novice will interpret the end product as some useless, magical mambo jumbo that doesn't give him much.

7

I like Mambo a fair bit, we have went there the last 2 years for my girlfriends birthday.

8

It's mambo jambo just to make a point that they've dealt with the issue.

9

He might also like the guy, or believe the Singularity mambo-jambo himself.

10

But sometimes, you can catch bugs and usability horrors with slow or dropped connection or some weird proxy mambo jambo played by ISS providers.

11

Sometimes, restaurants also want to be original and write some mambo jumbo in the menu as if I was interested.

12

Unfortunately, I think it's a bad sign when random mambo-jumbo generated by a Markov chain script looks so much like the real stuff...

Quote examples

1

Here are some cases to think about: What's the actual title of the song "Mambo #5" vs.

2

"mambo jambo" is incredibly racist against Latinos, but I promise not to try to get you fired over it, or call you an "ass clown"

Proper noun examples

1

Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

2

Mambo also peaked my interest, we might make it there too.

3

I've not been impressed with Joomla, so I've also avoided Mambo, but maybe they've learned their lessons (or maybe it's exhibiting second system effect, by now).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mambo in a sentence?

This doesn't happen often, but it has happened before, with Mambo and Joomla, and Hudson and Jenkins.

What does mambo mean?

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

What part of speech is mambo?

mambo is commonly used as noun, verb.