tango

Meanings

Noun

• A Standard ballroom dance in 4/4 time; or a social dance, the Argentine tango.
• A piece of music suited to such a dance.
• The letter T in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
• enemy, used amongst special police forces, derived from the abbreviation of target using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
• A dark orange colour shade; deep tangerine

Verb

• To dance the tango.
• To mingle or interact (with each other).

Origin

• Argentine-Spanish tango, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu ("to dance")).