noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm.
2. 2
   Abbreviation of charter change. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial
3. 3
   a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips wordnet
4. 4
   The music for this dance.

Verb

1. 1
   To dance the cha-cha. intransitive
2. 2
   dance the cha-cha wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

cha chacha cha chacha-cha-chacha-cha-chachachachachachachá

Example

More examples

"She wanted to learn the cha-cha."

Etymology

From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the music.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.