What is Bossanova?
1.
Not only a word used by the Pixies in the song "Hang Wire," and a title of one of their albums, it is a style of popular Brazilian music derived from the samba but with more melodic and harmonic complexity and less emphasis on percussion.
"Every morning and every day, I'll bossanova with ya!"
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Outrageous! Mindblowingly incredible! Expression of Good fortune. Killer! Awesome!
"Dude! I just scored her number!" "Bossanova!"
