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Definition of salsa
1 : a usually spicy sauce of chopped tomatoes, onions, and peppers that is commonly served with Mexican food; also : a similar sauce made with a main ingredient other than tomatoes peach salsa
2 : popular music of Latin American origin that has absorbed characteristics of rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock
From the M-W Editors
Examples of salsa in a Sentence
The band was playing salsa.
We're taking classes in salsa.
Recent Examples of salsa from the Web
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Try This:Thinly slice and grill potatoes for your next BBQ or bake whole russet potatoes and use them as a taco shell replacement by loading up on ground turkey, beans, avocado, salsa and sautéed summer veggies.
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Four Tern Farms, the Ba-Lescas Brothers, Chugach Farms, Alaska Seeds of Change and Brown Dog Farm will sell items like fresh greens, salad mixes, herbs, rhubarb, radishes, turnips, probiotic ferments, krauts, kimchi, green onions and salsa.
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Sweet cherries are typically eaten raw, and tart cherries, grown mainly in Michigan and Wisconsin, are great for use in barbecue sauces, as part of a salsa, or baked into sweet treats like pies and crumbles.
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Ochos: Fri: Salsa dancing with beginner lesson 8:30-9:30 p.m., open dancing 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., $8 includes lesson, $5 after 9:30 p.m. 515 W. Idaho St., Boise. 866-2640.
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But, as the exhibition shows with its images of mass salsa gatherings in the 21st century, people are still dancing to it.
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Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 Rosado was the father of a 5-year-old child and also a professional dancer, specializing in salsa.
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Political controversy cast a shadow over this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, but the celebration carried on Sunday under the blazing sun to the tunes of salsa, reggaeton and airhorns.
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This year will feature U.S. Olympian Laurie Hernandez and salsa legend Gilberto Santa Rosa.
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Origin and Etymology of salsa
Spanish, literally, sauce, from Latin, feminine of salsus salted — more at sauce
SALSA Defined for English Language Learners
salsa
playDefinition of salsa for English Language Learners
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: a spicy sauce made with tomatoes, onions, and hot peppers that is commonly served with Mexican food
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: a type of popular Latin-American music
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: dancing that is done to salsa music
SALSA Defined for Kids
salsa
playDefinition of salsa for Students
1 : a spicy sauce of tomatoes, onions, and hot peppers
2 : popular music of Latin American origin with characteristics of jazz and rock
Learn More about salsa
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See words that rhyme with salsa Spanish Central: Translation of salsa Nglish: Translation of salsa for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about salsa
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