Dictionary

gravedance en · NOUN

Etymology

From grave + dance.

Meanings

1. A celebratory dance performed on a grave.
   • And to know them, you must know Black Jack Mojo, the gravedance runner. 2000, Michael Rowe, Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, →ISBN, page 140:
2. (figuratively) The celebration of a person's downfall.
   • […] theory's endings are recurrent, multiple, and interminable, and that each proclamation of its passing, every mournful eulogy or triumphant gravedance, yields renewed and often powerful examinations of its powers, goals, histories, meanings, and values. 2014, D. N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory, →ISBN, page 207:
   • Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure! 2013 April 8, Vembu, “No 'smoking gun' to prove Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman”, in Firstpost:

Forms

gravedance en · VERB

Etymology

From grave + dance.

Meanings

1. Synonym of dance on someone's grave.

Forms

Synonyms

dance on someone's grave