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hula

[ hoo-luh ]

noun

  1. a sinuous Hawaiian dance with intricate arm movements that tell a story in pantomime, usually danced to rhythmic drumming and accompanied by chanting.


hula

/ ˈhuːlə /

noun

  1. a Hawaiian dance performed by a woman


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hula1

Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1815–25

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hula1

from Hawaiian

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Example Sentences

Neptune’s entire orbit around the sun wobbles like a struggling hula hoop.

Neptune’s entire orbit around the sun also wobbles, like a struggling hula hoop.

A hula hoop–like antenna on a pole holds stubby microphones feeding 48 independent channels of sound to location-calculating software.

In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air, women will emerge spinning Technicolor hula hoops, and a mechanical bull will rev into action, bucking off one delighted rider after another.

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They then stuck these chunks into hula hoops of DNA—called plasmids—and floated them into bacteria cells.

Stacked cylinders form a base beneath her feet and loosely roll about as she juggles objects and weaves in and out of hula-hoops.

Her kind-of-hula-dancing/kind-of-casting-a-spell hand choreography?

[ELLE UK] Chanel Hula Hoop Makes Street Appearance: The Chanel Hula Hoop has finally made its street-style debut.

And the Chanel Hula Hoop bag appears at New York Fashion Week.

That results in Ed Henry hula dancing on-air and other fluff segments.

Youngsters are taught everything from the hula, hat-weaving and coconut crafts to the Hawaiian alphabet song.

The hula pa-hua was a dance of the classical times that has long been obsolete.

Both olapa and hoopaa took part in the performance of this hula.

Of the 262 hula performances listed for exhibition, some 30 were of the hula ku'i.

Ami (-mi)--to bend; a bodily motion used in the hula (note, p. 202).

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