waltzed

Verb

waltz (third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
   • They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
2. (intransitive, transitive, usually, into, around) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
   • He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
3. (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
   • Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.

   Synonyms:

   breeze through

4. (transitive) To move with fanfare.
   • And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight...1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter the last”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

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