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Mexican waves

Mexican waves is the plural of Mexican wave.

Meaning of Mexican wave

Noun

Mexican wave (plural Mexican waves)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A phenomenon that primarily occurs at sports events, where the members of the crowd stand up and/or raise their hands in turn, creating the illusion of a wave passing through the crowd.
    • This is an important idea and can best be illustrated by analogy with a Mexican wave. Although the Mexican wave seems to involve the coherent motion of a large number of people, it is clear to those who have been involved, that the “trigger” for an individual to react is entirely spatially and...1995, Shane Cloude, An Introduction to Electromagnetic Wave Propagation & Antennas, Springer, 0-387-91501-X, pages 3–4

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Questions about Mexican waves

What is Mexican waves the plural of?
Mexican waves is the plural of Mexican wave.

Words near Mexican waves in the dictionary

  1. Mexican turnover
  2. Mexican turnovers
  3. Mexican walking fish
  4. Mexican War
  5. Mexican wave
  6. Mexican waves
  7. Mexican west coast rattlesnake
  8. Mexican west coast rattlesnakes
  9. Mexican white pine
  10. Mexican white pines
  11. Mexican wolf

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