cancan
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cancan
- /ˈkænˌkæn/ Australia, Canada, US
- /ˈkanˌkan/ India, UK, Scotland
- /ˈkɛnˌkɛn/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ænkæn, -ankan
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French cancan.
noun cancans · can-can
- A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France. 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.
- "Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan.
- A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
verb cancans · cancanning · cancanned · can-can
- To dance the cancan.
Translations
Talk about this word "cancan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cancan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cancan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cancan "cancan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cancan.Cite this
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title = {cancan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cancan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
