The cha-cha is a Latin dance with a distinctive triple step. Dance the cha-cha, a cha-cha rhythm, learn the cha-cha.
It came out of Cuba in the early 1950s and is named from the sound of the shuffling feet on the triple step. The full name is cha-cha-cha, which is what Cuban musicians still call it.
1nouncha-chaA Latin dance with a distinctive triple step.
“The couple danced a lively cha-cha, their hips swaying to the Cuban beat.”
cha-cha is a dance.
From Cuban Spanish, imitating the sound of the shuffling steps.
Spanish
cha-cha
English, today
cha-cha
From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the sound of the music.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Dance