salsa

Meanings

Noun

• A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.
• A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
• Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

Verb

• To dance the salsa.

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish salsa ("sauce"), from Latin salsus ("salted"), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).