fandango

1. (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).Examples: "The soldiers were oftener gambling and dancing beneath the walls than keeping watch upon the battlements, and nothing was heard from morning till night but the noisy contests of cards and dice, mingled with the sound of the bolero or fandango, the drowsy strumming of the guitar, and the rattling of the castanets, while often the whole was interrupted by the loud brawl and fierce and bloody contest."; "[…] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots."; "We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor"countableuncountable

2. (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.Examples: "What’s that fandango you’re using?"; "She had on a new silk dress, flounced clear up to her knees, and some kind of a fandango of a thing on her shoulders."colloquialcountablefigurativelyuncountable

3. (euphemistic) Vagina.Examples: "So, what? She strangled her and stuck a broken bottle up her... fandango?"countableeuphemisticuncountable