mambo

A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)countableuncountable

• The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
• In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.countableuncountable

To perform this dance.intransitive