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cha-cha

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Interesting fact
Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958 He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather.
  1. (v) cha-cha
    dance the cha-cha
  2. (n) cha-cha
    a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips
Usage in the news

Chakula cha Jua boasts all of those attributes — and we should be mightily glad that he does. nola.com

CHA Urges Expanded Religious Exemption. americancatholic.org

Actor Chakula cha Jua's one-man show tells it like it was and is. nola.com

If Chakula cha Jua's new one-man show at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center is as entertaining as the conversation we had over coffee at his kitchen table last week, it's one not to miss. nola.com

SPECIALTY Wong restaurant's version of the Vietnamese dish cha ca la Vong. nytimes.com

Power women turn out for Cha Bella bash. savannahnow.com

HunterMaclean's Women's Initiative had its "peer-to-peer" networking event at Cha Bella on Broad Street on May 17. savannahnow.com

Donald Driver Cha - cha -chas to 'Dancing' win. kgmi.com

Green Bay Packers football star Donald Driver won the 14th season of 'Dancing With the Stars' on Tuesday, Cha - cha - cha -ing to victory on the strength of perfect scores from the show's judges and voting support from fervid fans. kgmi.com

CHA 's Wilson finds his mojo at Penn Relays. philly.com

Dancing With the Local Stars, Cha - Cha . kansascw.com

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia will offer a free cha - cha dance class on March 27 at 6:30 pm in the Visitor Center and Conservatory. onlineathens.com

Local dance instructor Ron Putman will start with a demonstration of the cha - cha and follow with instruction on basic steps and variations. onlineathens.com

Titans safety Babineaux talks ' cha -ching'. espn.go.com

Chaz sure can cha cha . usmagazine.com

Usage in scientific papers

Program. 78(2): 98-115 (2009) Š ůcha, P., Kutil, M., Sojka, M., Hanzálek, Z.: TORSCHE Scheduling Toolbox for Matlab. In IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design. Munich, Germany: (2006).
Extending Refusal Testing by Stochastic Refusals for Testing Non-deterministic Systems

The ideal gas model is sufficient only for extremely small cha racteristic frequencies f0 ≪ f1 (eqs. and ), which is below the lower frequency limit of GW detectors.
Detection Rate Estimates of Gravity-waves Emitted During Parabolic Encounters of Stellar Black Holes in Globular Clusters

There is huge variation about 100 times larger tha n the amplitude of the plot at the bottom of Fig. 1, and extracting any signal from such a large background is a cha llenge.
An Explanation of Dayton Miller's Anomalous "Ether Drift" Result

E. C. van der Meulen, “Three-terminal communication cha nnels,” Adv.
Resource Allocation for Wireless Fading Relay Channels: Max-Min Solution

The acyclic list chromatic number cha is the least n, such that for any assignment of lists of size n, there is an acyclic list coloring of G.
Degenerate and star colorings of graphs on surfaces

Usage in literature

His parents were poor, indolent, and careless, so that Cha-cha grew up an illiterate, headstrong youth. "Captain Canot" by Brantz Mayer

Thus armed, they secretly entered the house of Cha'ron, one of their friends in Thebes. "The Story of the Greeks" by H. A. Guerber

They crossed the river Cha-ho, and a desert that Marco Polo was to explore eight hundred years later. "Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by Jules Verne

The four following cases were drawn out at my request by Mr. Cha. "An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses" by William Withering

Peirce & others of their freinds perswaded the Gov^r to chaing their condition, and give them wages; which was accordingly done. "Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'" by William Bradford

This neighborhood, called Nagata-cha, is the most fashionable in Tokio. "Travels in the Far East" by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

An-pay-tu-tok-a-cha, or John Otherday, was with the whites, and took a conspicuous part in the fray. "The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier" by Charles E. Flandrau

Am focail geilleam do Mhorlamh; Mo lann do neach beo cha gheill. "Elements of Gaelic Grammar" by Alexander Stewart

But Black Jack is patient, an' each time pokes him back with a cha'r. "Faro Nell and Her Friends" by Alfred Henry Lewis

We'll ride in de golden cha'iot, by en bye. "The Romance of a Plain Man" by Ellen Glasgow

Usage in poetry
Arm cha deargadh air an thear,
Ach a chlaidheamh run-geal fein.
Agus is fhearr dhuit dol fo-chleith
Do aite air leith tearruinnt' o'n eug.
Agus is fhearr, &c.
Well, baby won't you come out tonight
Underneath the moon so bright
We'll have fun cuttin' the rug
Won't cha come out my little honey bug
Oh baby, won't cha come out tonight
Air dhuinn bhi seoladh stigh ri bhun,
Chaidh slabhraidh a chuir a nuas;
S roimh an t slabhraidh cha do ghabh-ar crith
Ach chaidhearurra na m'ruith suas.
S roimh an t slabhraidh, &c.