1A dance in triple time performed by a couple, who as a pair turn rhythmically around and around as they progress around the dance floor.

1. 1.1A piece of music written for or in the style of a waltz.
   ‘Among his compositions are operas, marches, waltzes, and the music for the Canadian national anthem, ‘O Canada.’’
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   • ‘After a brief introduction, the music becomes a sensuous waltz, filled with regret.’
   • ‘Schubert, who spent evenings listening to Pamer and Lanner, wrote numerous sets of waltzes for the piano, exploring its formal possibilities.’
   • ‘The waltzes and Viennese pieces are also a re-recording of a similar disc with 1957 tapings.’
   • ‘Vaughan Williams seemed already modal enough and was told to write a waltz, which came out modal just the same.’
   • ‘One of the abiding interests in her life was music and she was an accomplished dancer who loved the traditional music, waltzes and sing-alongs at various venues around Mayo and Galway.’
   • ‘Her lyrics are rich with this unresolved duality, as is her music: cabaret-style waltzes come across as both coquettish and menacing, and her slower songs can be both cavernous and hopeful.’
   • ‘The bulk of the entertainment for the occasion was provided by local group, Whispers, who were a hit with their old-time waltzes and traditional music.’
   • ‘Oberst's grasp of American music - country, waltzes, blues, punk, and rock - sounds as virtuosic as the Band's.’
   • ‘In the first quarter of the 19th Century Antonio Diabelli, a Viennese pianist and music publisher, sent a simple waltz he had written to a number of major composers and invited them to write variations.’
   • ‘Moving from ghazals to gypsy and waltz to Latin music, it hopes to bring the whole spectrum of strings and non-strings under one roof.’
   • ‘The waltzes stand among my least favorite Chopin pieces.’
   • ‘Poulenc ends his opera with a grand chorus, which alternates between a sultry waltz and a kick of satyr's heels, a hymn to ‘make babies!’’
   • ‘The song starts as a maudlin waltz, a mandolin accented moment of regret that finds Drootin's confused character moving ‘through the town’ before the sun is up.’
   • ‘A short time later another tune is begun, a waltz.’
   • ‘It is a gentle, almost languid waltz, with a simple melody, and even simpler harmonies and construction.’
   • ‘The music matches this lyrical depth. ‘Crown of Love’ stands out as a relatively simple waltz about fading love (at least until the song switches into a disco stomp at the end).’
   • ‘I also find it an interesting example of what I call the ‘Broadway waltz,’ of the kind written by Richard Rogers and Leonard Bernstein.’
   • ‘‘Wind Song’ is a beautifully compelling waltz that is one of the highlights of the CD.’
   • ‘There is little doubt that the dance form of the waltz, with its heavy accent on the first beat of the bar, came about through the influence of the ländler.’

1Dance a waltz.

1. 1.1with object Guide (someone) in or as if in a waltz.
   ‘he waltzed her around the table’
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   • ‘I think my feet were trying to remind me they could resolve the problem by simply waltzing me fight out of there!’
   • ‘In the installation, Acconci literally pushed the envelope into billowing floes that waltzed visitors through space.’
   • ‘Trying to hide my humiliation, I waltzed her over to the edge of the crowd and kept my back to them as long as I could.’
   • ‘Laughing, Adam kissed her again, then picking her up in his arms, waltzed her around the room.’
   • ‘Swifts responded when striker Dwayne Edward waltzed the ball round Lance Key, but defender Daniel Cunningham, making his debut, coolly shepherded the ball out under pressure.’
   • ‘This does not mean that traditional businesses are waltzing their way through cyberspace.’
   • ‘Gareth Marshall, on his debut, scored the Cullingworth side's first after waltzing his way past three defenders.’
   • ‘She stood there for a while before waltzing her way dreamily over to Jennifer's still form.’
   • ‘A tall dark waiter in a tuxedo waltzed by, an amazingly large tray laden with dishes precariously balanced above his head.’
   • ‘Without realizing it, she waltzed the rest of the way to the room.’
   • ‘But City had set the tempo and Jacobs waltzed his way around Antony Kay only to see Windass put the header in the TL Dallas Stand.’
   • ‘My mum waltzed by my open door, came back, and then peered in at me.’
   • ‘The doors to the room flew open and in waltzed a distraught looking Gabriel followed by a frazzled Zadikeil.’
   • ‘She just waltzed her way up to him, in deep thought, and did not realise it at all.’
   • ‘I told Dr Lillehei about it and he came down and we took all the dogs out and waltzed them around the yard.’
   • ‘Now we should be able to waltz our way right up to the bridge.’
   • ‘You spent all that time trying to get out, and now that you've done it you're going to waltz right back over there.’
   • ‘Quickly Ravenhurst began to waltz himself and Krystle towards a door that led to the gardens.’
   • ‘Torres dances his way into the penalty area, but he can't waltz his way past Jaidi, who times his tackle to perfection.’
   • ‘I had half a mind to open the door to the hotel room again, pick up my bag, and waltz right back to the airport.’
2. 1.2no object Move or act lightly, casually, or inconsiderately.
   ‘you can't just waltz in and expect to make a mark’
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   • ‘it is the third time that he has waltzed off with the coveted award’
   • ‘From a male point of view I can understand they feel they've been killing themselves all these years, and why should women waltz in and get top jobs without the same sacrifice.’
   • ‘While that is a time-filler for many students, it's returned a sense of positive control to my life as I lurk for comment spammers who waltz in and mark up their unwanted remarks.’
   • ‘Well, if the right has indeed ‘stolen’ freedom as their buzzword, perhaps we might ask who left the door wide open and allowed them to waltz in and take it away from under our noses?’
   • ‘They would waltz in and out of my life at intervals and so I theorized that I got ‘used’ to not having any constant friends around.’
   • ‘But I'm certainly not expecting just to waltz in here and take over.’
   • ‘You expect to waltz in here and take our movies with no more proof of your identity than a phone number?’
   • ‘Supply teachers can waltz in to school at 9am and waltz back out again at 3:30 pm with no repercussions.’
   • ‘What's bothering me is how you think you can waltz in here and just take over the place.’
   • ‘Unfortunately, an unsubtle ham-fisted approach is taken and subplots waltz in and out without any real relevance to the main story.’
   • ‘For six months I don't get anything from you and now you just happen to literally waltz in here and surprise me like this.’
   • ‘They can waltz in to a job straight from college, nobody particularly wants to train them and they can make a good living without particularly exerting themselves.’
   • ‘The United States already has big bad weapons that can't be stopped and that hasn't exactly allowed given them a free ride to waltz in anywhere unopposed.’
   • ‘Employees conducting routine maintenance inadvertently left the system unprotected, allowing intruders to waltz in.’
   • ‘Inside the shallow part of the labyrinth if he so wanted to see his prize, but not where some Rune could waltz in and find him.’
   • ‘Curious, thought the manageress, she was the last person you would expect to waltz in quite that late without so much as an excuse.’
   • ‘The administration assured people that the troops would waltz in and waltz out, and that certainly wasn't the case either.’
   • ‘Was the government waltzing us down the 1980s cul-de-sac again?’
   • ‘Before we waltz all starry eyed into a hydrogen economy, we need to answer some very tough questions.’
   • ‘You can't afford to be so oblivious, she'd scold, or you're liable to waltz right into trouble.’
   • ‘You might want to hear a prettier version or be waltzed through a magical forest before I get to the point.’