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How to pronounce conga in English?

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Type Words
Type of ballroom dance, ballroom dancing
Type Words
Type of dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Type Words
Type of dance music

Examples of conga

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Latin jazz legend Poncho Sanchez is bringing his conga mastership back to Fresno.
From the fresnobee.com
Announcers called the single-file racing everything from a parade to a conga line.
From the al.com
During fall, Skyline Drive becomes a conga line of cars carrying leaf peepers.
From the washingtonpost.com
Fellow patrons wondered aloud what this now massive conga line was all about.
From the washingtontimes.com
Drunk people love a good conga and before long we had over four people in our line.
From the independent.co.uk
At other times we do a conga line through a remote village unreachable by any road.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Last year, the Zocalo rink hosted the world's longest conga line of skaters.
From the chron.com
Especially because we managed to make the biggest conga line I've ever seen.
From the independent.co.uk
Avoiding conga lines of airplanes would also save fuel and curb emissions.
From the online.wsj.com
More examples
  • Music composed for dancing the conga
  • A Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
  • The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent.nA person who plays conga is called a "conguero". ...
  • Co'nga is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies at an altitude of 3888 metres (12,759 feet). The village has a population of about 784.
  • Congas and comparsas are different parts of the carnivals of Santiago de Cuba. , and by extension, similar groups may be found in carnivals in Havana. ...
  • The conga line is a Cuban carnival march that was first developed in Cuba and became popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1950s. The dancers form a long, processing line. It has three shuffle steps on the beat, followed by a kick that is slightly ahead of the fourth beat. ...
  • Conga music is a style of Cuban music used to dance Conga.
  • Conga is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
  • "Conga" is the first single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their second English language album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love.