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S&D

S&D is the initialism of Socialists and Democrats (“Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

S&D is the initialism of song and dance.

Meaning of song and dance

Noun

song and dance (countable and uncountable, plural songs and dances)

  1. A display of unnecessary excitement or activity.
  2. An excessively elaborate story or excuse used to justify something.
    • You could pick up the phone, call your vendors and give them a big song and dance about all the great things happening in your company.2011 December 2, Ariel Kaminer, “The Ethicist: Caveat Vendor”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Apr 2015
    Synonyms:
    palaver
  3. An excessively complex set of instructions.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see song, and, dance.

Questions about S&D

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S&D is the initialism of Socialists and Democrats (“Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

Words near S&D in the dictionary

  1. S twist
  2. s watch
  3. S wave
  4. S waves
  5. S&A
  6. S&D
  7. S&H
  8. S&L
  9. S&Ls
  10. S&M
  11. S&Mer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: S&D (page history and authors); song and dance (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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