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dirty dance

dirty dance verb: to engage in a sexually provocative dance; to striptease.

Verb

dirty dance (third-person singular simple present dirty dances, present participle dirty dancing, simple past and past participle dirty danced)

  1. To engage in a sexually provocative dance; to striptease.
  2. To engage in an up-close-and-personal style of dancing, often with the goal of sexually enticing one's partner.
    • The young women gave him the excitement of his life when they began to dirty dance with him on the dance floor.

Forms of dirty dance

third-person singular presentdirty dances
present participledirty dancing
past participledirty danced
pastdirty danced

Questions about dirty dance

What does dirty dance mean?
Dirty dance means to engage in a sexually provocative dance; to striptease.
What part of speech is dirty dance?
Dirty dance is a verb.
What is the past tense of dirty dance?
The past tense of dirty dance is dirty danced.

Words near dirty dance in the dictionary

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  2. dirty coal
  3. dirty code
  4. Dirty Creek
  5. dirty dairying
  6. dirty dance
  7. dirty danced
  8. dirty dances
  9. dirty dancing
  10. dirty delete
  11. dirty deleted

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