cancan /ˈkænˌkæn/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began. — 1886 •"Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan. •A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side. verb1 •To dance the cancan. formscancanned · cancanning · cancans
