zombie dance

Meanings

1. A type of dance in which participants use dance moves that mimic the undead, often combined with a masquerade and costumes.
2. A ritual Caribbean dance in which participants enter a trance state and symbolically die and are born again.
3. A sequence of events leading to someone feeling dead inside, and the actions of the individual as they experience that sequence.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, dance.; a dance performed by zombies.

Etymology

(dancing in the style of a zombie): Popularized by Michael Jackson in the music video Thriller (1983).