Definition of "waltz"

waltz

/wɔːlts/

noun
plural waltzes
1. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
2. A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
3. (informal) A simple task.
verb
third-person singular simple present waltzes, present participle waltzing, simple past and past participle waltzed
1. (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
  Quotations
  "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
  2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212
2. (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
  Quotations
  Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
  2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎
  The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.
  2021 February 25, Mara Altman, “Glitzy, Tragic and Selfish: Female Con Artists Waltz by Society’s Rules”, in The New York Times‎
3. (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
4. (transitive) To move with fanfare.
  Quotations
  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 procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
  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, […]

Definition of "waltz"

waltz

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