cancan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lively French stage dance performed with high kicks, traditionally by a chorus line

   The performers ended the revue with a fast, exuberant cancan.

2. 2
   verb

   to dance the cancan

   The cast cancanned across the stage in a line.

Borrowed from French cancan, originally a word for gossip or scandal and later the name of the provocative high-kicking dance that became famous in nineteenth-century Paris.

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