"waacking" meaning in English

See waacking in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

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, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "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": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}

Download raw JSONL data for waacking meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). 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.