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manbo

manbo is the alternative form of mambo.

Meaning of mambo

Noun

mambo (countable and uncountable, plural mambos or mamboes)

  1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
    • The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47
  2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

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Forms of manbo

pluralmanbos

Questions about manbo

What is manbo the alternative form of?
Manbo is the alternative form of mambo.

Words near manbo in the dictionary

  1. Manbij
  2. manbird
  3. manbirds
  4. manbitch
  5. manbitches
  6. manbo
  7. manbodies
  8. manbody
  9. manboob
  10. manboobed
  11. manboobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: manbo (page history and authors); mambo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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