conga

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: con=ga

CIDE DICTIONARY

conga, n. 

•  music composed for dancing the conga.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

conga, n. & v.
--n.
1 a Latin-American dance of African origin, usu. with several persons in a single line, one behind the other.
2 (also conga drum) a tall, narrow, low-toned drum beaten with the hands.
--v.intr. (congas, congaed or conga'd, congaing) perform the conga.

Etymology

Amer. Sp. f. Sp. conga (fem.) of the Congo