samba

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.
2. (countable, uncountable)A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.

   “And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby”

   “They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.””

   “Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888; until then, Bahia had been a major hub of the country’s slave trade. Samba started there for a reason—a fact that Veloso has returned to, obsessively, throughout his career. […] “A samba parade had turned into a brawl,” a reviewer wrote in the Times, adding that the music “suggested a more cool-headed, grown-up epilogue to the shocks of Tropicália.””

verb

1. (intransitive)To dance the samba.

   “In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style.”

name

1. A town and district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.