Definitions for cancan

cancan can·can

Spelling: [kan-kan]
IPA: /ˈkænˌkæn/

Cancan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in cancan (aaccnn).

Definitions for cancan

noun

  1. a lively high kicking dance that came into vogue about 1830 in Paris and after 1844 was used as an exhibition dance.

Origin of cancan

1840-50; French, repetitive compound (based on can) said to be nursery variant of canard duck; see canard

Examples for cancan

The cancan, a pitiably tame cancan, is danced—in public—only to satisfy 193 the curiosity of sensation-seeking tourists.

It's bad that that chap in the grey trousers should dare to dance the cancan so openly.

No rag-time was danced in those days, but early in the morning we had plenty of the cancan.

The women who disport in the cancan at the same place are simply hired by the season.

cancan, the name of an ungraceful and indecent dance practised in the Paris dancing saloons.

They might go and find the minister away, and then—voila, what a chance for cancan!

When he invites his friends to breakfast, the mice will dance the cancan!

Only this morning I open the ice box and they were all dancing the cancan.

The man in the plaid trousers is dancing the cancan with Aunt Merlin; it's most amusing!

From Sir Thomas's description one would imagine that the cancan was habitually danced at the balls he frequents.

Word Value for cancan
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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