Definition of "mambo" in English

noun

1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

   • The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
   • In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.

2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.