Fandango

Definition: Fandango

Fandango

Noun

1. A provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets.

Date "fandango" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Fandango \Fan*dan"go\, noun; plural Fandangoes. [from Spanish expression name brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to Spain.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Fandango

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Fandango (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Fandango is a 1975 (See 1975 in music) album by ZZ Top.

Track Listing

Thunderbird == 2:49
Jailhouse Rock (Leiber, Stoller) == 1:56
Backdoor Medley:

Backdoor Love Affair (Gibbons, Ham) == 1:09
Mellow Down Easy (Dixon) == 3:39
Backdoor Love Affair No. 2 (Gibbons) == 2:04
Long Distance Boogie == 2:31

Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings == 2:42

Blue Jean Blues == 4:42

Balinese == 2:37

Mexican Blackbird == 3:06

Heard it on the X == 2:23

Tush == 2:14

All song by Gibbons, Hill, Beard expect where stated otherwise.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fandango (album)."

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Crosswords: Fandango

English words defined with "fandango": Chica ♦ Fandangoes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fandango": aliasing bug ♦ C Programmer's Disease ♦ Dances, DIAZ ♦ fandango on core ♦ memory leak ♦ precedence lossage ♦ secondary damage, silly walk, stale pointer bug. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fandango" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (fandango), Swedish (fandango).

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Modern Usage: Fandango

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Search and test a tango, skips the light fandango, ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)
Movie/TV Titles	Fandango (1969) Cirkus Fandango (1954) Fandango (1948) Fairfax Fandango (1997) Fandango (1983)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fandango

Domain	Title
Books	Fandango (reference) Fandango (A Double d Western) (reference) Fandango Rock (reference) Fashion Fandango (reference) Fruit Fandango Cookbook a Celebration of Fru (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Fandango (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Cloverleaf Fandango [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Fandango (reference) Fandango Nights (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Grim Fandango (reference) Grim Fandango (Jewel Case) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Fandango

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Usage Frequency: Fandango

"Fandango" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fandango" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Fandango

Expression using "fandango": fandango on core. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fandango

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fandango	8,745	grim fandango demo	6
grim fandango	365	commercial fandango	6
grim fandango walk through	86	fandango night	5
fandango movie	60	dance fandango	5
fandango jc	42	discount fandango	5
com fandango	29	fandango inc	5
code fandango promotional	23	fandango seattle	5
fandango movie ticket	22	code coupon fandango	5
coupon fandango	21	grim fandango full download	4
grim fandango cheat	21	fandango top zz	4
grim fandango download	19	download fandango full game grim	4
grim fandango hint	17	fandango movie times	4
fandango ticket	15	grim fandango soundtrack	4
claim code fandango	15	fandango theater	4
grim fandango 2	12	dic dic fandango	3
code fandango	8	fandango promotion	3
fandango restaurant	8	buck code fandango promotional	3
grim fandango patch	7	grim fandango solution	3
buck fandango	7	code fandango promotion	3
fall fandango	6	grim fandango iso	3
		fandango om	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fandango

Language		Translations for "fandango"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		fandango. (various references)

Pig Latin		andangofay

Swedish		fandango. (various references)

Thai		การเต้นระบำสเปนแบบสามจังหวะ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fandango

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fandango": fandangos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fandango" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fandian, fundango. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fandango"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fandango" (pronounced fanda"nggō')
3	-ng g ō'	Bongo.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fandango

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-g-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: goanna.
	-3 letters: donga, donna, fanga, fanon, ganof, gonad.
	-4 letters: agon, anga, anna, anoa, anon, dago, dang, dona, dong, fado, fang, fano, fond, goad, naan, nada, nana, nona.
	-5 letters: ado, aga, ago, ana, and, dag, dog, don, fad, fag, fan, fog, fon, gad, gan, goa, god, nag, nan, nod, nog, oaf.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-f-g-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: fandangos.
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