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tangoes

tangoes is the plural of tango.

tangoes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tango.

Meaning of tango

Noun (1)

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

  1. A standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
  2. A Spanish flamenco dance with different steps from the Argentine.
  3. A piece of music suited to such a dance.
  4. A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

Noun (2)

tango (plural tangos or tangoes)

  1. (US, slang) A target; an enemy.
    • Tango down!

See all 8 meanings of tango

Forms of tangoes

alternative formtangos

Questions about tangoes

What is tangoes the plural of?
Tangoes is the plural of tango.

Words near tangoes in the dictionary

  1. Tangneys
  2. tango
  3. tango uniform
  4. Tangob
  5. tangoed
  6. tangoes
  7. tangoing
  8. tangoist
  9. tangoists
  10. tangolike
  11. Tangonan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangoes (page history and authors); tango (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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