mamboed

verb

past tense of mambo
as in fox-trotted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mamboed
  1. shuffled
  2. bopped
  3. jived
  4. strutted
  5. pranced
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  • On the day of disembarkation, shuttle buses pulled up alongside the Odyssey and passengers shuffled out.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • That said, moving off Nikola’s money certainly could/should be a Heat consideration at some point, with Jovic shuffled out of the rotation Wednesday night against the Clippers.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of shuffled
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  • Throughout the night, creatives grazed on light bites from Goop Kitchen—the teriyaki salmon hand rolls were a crowd favorite—and bopped to the tunes from DJ Mariko.
    — Paul Chi, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Ortiz bopped 208 in his first five seasons with the Red Sox.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Definition of bopped
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  • The high school musical romance Grease hand-jived its way into theaters during the summer of 1978.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
Definition of jived
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  • Dressed in brown textured leopard print pants and a yellow tank top, Lima strutted down the catwalk donning heavy silver jewelry, including an oversize chainlink necklace and a bracketing cuff on each earlobe.
    — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The door opened and the powder-room pioneer strutted out, two thumbs up in an initial review for a new piece of public infrastructure that could soon come to neighborhoods across the city.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of strutted
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  • As Darrell Royal, the old football coach at Texas once said … one of his players pranced into the end zone and started beating on his own chest.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
  • Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.
    — Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026
Definition of pranced
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“Mamboed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mamboed. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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