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Watusi

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Noun
  1. 1
    A popular African-inspired dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song The Wah-Watusi by The Orlons in 1962.

    "Baby, baby, that's the way it goes Nothing happens when you Mash Potatoes I just gotta fall in love with you Watusi is the dance to do Wah-a, wah, wah-a Watusi C'mon and take a chance and get-a with this dance."

  2. 2
    A member of a Bantu-speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi; the Tutsi.
  3. 3
    a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi wordnet
  4. 4
    A Christmas firework popular in the Philippines, made with yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene.
  5. 5
    A cow of a modern American breed.

    "Watusis are recommended for crossing (with Longhorns) to obtain good roping cattle for the rodeo."

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  1. 6
    Alternative form of watusi (“1960s dance”). alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To dance the watusi. intransitive

    "[…] but in the middle of it all will be some preposterous, highly charged, not to mention boob-driven image of some chick watusiing away atop an oil rig."

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