gravedance
verbEtymology From grave + dance.
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Synonym of dance on someone's grave.
gravedance
nounEtymology From grave + dance.
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A celebratory dance performed on a grave.
- And to know them, you must know Black Jack Mojo, the gravedance runner.2000, Michael Rowe, Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, →ISBN, page 140:
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Figuratively The celebration of a person's downfall.
- Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure!2013 April 8, Vembu, “No 'smoking gun' to prove Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman”, in Firstpost:
- […] theory's endings are recurrent, multiple, and interminable, and that each proclamation of its passing, every mournful eulogy or triumphant gravedance, yields renewed and often powerful examinations of its powers, goals, histories, meanings, and values.2014, D. N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory, →ISBN, page 207: