"waacking" meaning in All languages combined

See waacking on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} waacking (uncountable)
  1. A style of disco dance involving rhythmic footwork and moving one's arms to the beat. Wikipedia link: waacking Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Dance
    Sense id: en-waacking-en-noun-Y718NTp9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for waacking meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "waacking (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dance",
          "orig": "en:Dance",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lori Henry, Dancing Through History, page 90",
          "text": "From there she took on more hip hop, as well as locking, popping, house, voguing, waacking and commercial dance choreography in Los Angeles and New York City.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond, page 48",
          "text": "The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A style of disco dance involving rhythmic footwork and moving one's arms to the beat."
      ],
      "id": "en-waacking-en-noun-Y718NTp9",
      "links": [
        [
          "disco",
          "disco"
        ],
        [
          "dance",
          "dance"
        ],
        [
          "rhythmic",
          "rhythmic"
        ],
        [
          "footwork",
          "footwork"
        ],
        [
          "arm",
          "arm"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "waacking"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waacking"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "waacking (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Dance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lori Henry, Dancing Through History, page 90",
          "text": "From there she took on more hip hop, as well as locking, popping, house, voguing, waacking and commercial dance choreography in Los Angeles and New York City.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond, page 48",
          "text": "The urban dance genre includes breaking, waacking, and house dancing, among others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A style of disco dance involving rhythmic footwork and moving one's arms to the beat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disco",
          "disco"
        ],
        [
          "dance",
          "dance"
        ],
        [
          "rhythmic",
          "rhythmic"
        ],
        [
          "footwork",
          "footwork"
        ],
        [
          "arm",
          "arm"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "waacking"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waacking"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.