cancan
verbEtymology Borrowed from French cancan.
1
To dance the cancan.
cancan
nounAU, CA, US, UK /ˈkænˌkæn/ · IN, UK, SC /ˈkanˌkan/
Etymology Borrowed from French cancan.
- They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
2
Dance, Dancing, Entertainment, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Music, Sports Broadly "Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan.
3
A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.