salsas

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of salsa.

   The taqueria sets out a row of salsas ranging from mild tomato to fiery habanero.

   She blended two salsas together to balance the heat and the sweetness.

   Note

   A plural that only some meanings of salsa can take. The sauce and the dance are countable, so a taqueria can set out several salsas and a dancer can learn more than one. The music is uncountable, so a listener enjoys salsa, never salsas. When the plural appears, it means kinds of sauce or kinds of dance, not the music.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of salsa.

   She salsas with effortless rhythm the moment the band starts playing.

   My grandfather still salsas at family weddings, leading every partner across the floor.

   Note

   Spelled exactly like the plural noun, so only the sentence shows which is meant: a single subject comes before it and no object follows. The verb means to dance the salsa and is intransitive, so it takes phrases of place or manner rather than objects. Someone salsas at weddings, salsas well, or salsas with a partner.

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