cancan

IPA: kˈænkæn

A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
(motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

Examples of "cancan" in Sentences

Fancy abandoned the cancan for the Charlie Brown theme song.
Is it mere coincidence that the most representative Parisian dance is called the cancan?
Just as naked as the day I was born, in front of a huge audience and eight super-attractive cancan dancers.
The word "cancan" in French means "scandal," and the high-kicks and lifting and tossing of skirts did scandalize
This night his tiny fingers made shadows that turned into a line of kicking cancan dancers on the curtain fabric.
It clearly depicted a little boy and a slightly bigger woman dancing the cancan and every once in a while kissing a little.
And in that light he saw an amazingly beautiful rainbow, like a line of multicolored, high-kicking cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge in Paris in 1909.
After dinner du Maurier and Barty sang capital songs of the quartier latin, and told stories of the atelier, and even danced a kind of cancan together -- an invention of their own -- which they called "_le dernier des Abencerrages_."