zombie dance
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of dance in which participants use dance moves that mimic the undead, often combined with a masquerade and costumes.
noun
A ritual Caribbean dance in which participants enter a trance state and symbolically die and are born again.
noun
A sequence of events leading to someone feeling dead inside, and the actions of the individual as they experience that sequence.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, dance.; a dance performed by zombies.
Example Sentences
- "The Minneapolis police did not share the fun spirit at a "zombie dance party” held in July 2006 in Minneapolis, arresting six people dressed as zombies for carrying devices that looked like WMDs—which turned out to be backpacks with homemade stereos in them so the zombies could dance."
- "Through the zombie dance sequence, Gaga shows us that poignancy, pathos and pain ultimately lead to the discovery of the beauty found within our agonizing life experiences.”"
- "Before he can answer, everyone starts busting zombie moves—because who doesn't love a zombie dance?"
- "In 2007, more than three hundred inmates, many of whom were imprisoned for murder, performed a truncated version of Jackson's zombie dance from "Thriller.""
- "The repetition of moves from the zombie dance in the quotidian market scene and in the ag'ya illustrates the influence or integration of elements of vodou culture in the everyday."
- "Figure 4: Zombie dances at Cumina ceremonies 3: the possessed hurling himself through the dancing crowd blindly"
Etymology
(dancing in the style of a zombie): Popularized by Michael Jackson in the music video Thriller (1983).