rain dance

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rain dance (plural rain dances)

  1. A ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 180:
      The women stripped naked and took part in a rain-dance, a girl being chosen for the sacrificial victim.
  2. (meteorology, by extension) Any sequence of actions performed in order to provoke rain.
  3. (by extension) Any sequence of arbitrary actions performed in order to achieve a goal.

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