waltz
see also: Waltz
Pronunciation Noun
Waltz
Proper noun
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see also: Waltz
Pronunciation Noun
waltz (plural waltzes)
- A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
- (informal) A simple task.
waltz (waltzes, present participle waltzing; past and past participle waltzed)
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
- While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
- You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last:
- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to […] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter the Last:
Waltz
Proper noun
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