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tarantism 

The uncontrollable urge to dance to relieve one's melancholy.
I think I've got a bad case of tarantism, I just can't seem to stop myself from getting down and funky.

It's really a word, look it up in the real dictionary.
tarantism by sean82fta September 5, 2005

tarantism 

(TAR-uhn-tiz-uhm)- An uncontrollable urge to dance - After Taranto, a town in southern Italy where this phenomenon was experienced during the 15-17th centuries. It's not clear whether tarantism was the symptom of a spider's bite or its cure, or it may have been just a pretext to dodge a
prohibition against dancing. The names of the dance tarantella and the spider tarantula are both derived from the same place.
"The director is in a wild delirium, spinning in circles as though stricken with tarantism, his whirring camera held at arm's length, panning, tilting, arcing and oscillating and making other moves that have no name."
tarantism by JRob August 25, 2006

TarantinoMaxx 

Colloquial way to refer to washing ones feet. Derived from the fact that Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2) includes foot shots in all of his movies, due to the fact that he has a foot fetish. One could argue that this could be used to describe a number of situations involving feet: foot massages, pedicures, painting your toenails, twisting, or trying to will your limbs out of entropy.
"My favorite thing to do during a nice, hot, shower is to TarantinoMaxx."
TarantinoMaxx by Smelliottith December 25, 2023

TarantinoMaxxing 

Colloquial way to refer to washing ones feet. Derived from the fact that Quentin Tarantino (director of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2) includes foot shots in all of his movies, due to the fact that he has a foot fetish. One could argue that this could be used to describe a number of situations involving feet: foot massages, pedicures, painting your toenails, twisting, or trying to will your limbs out of entropy.
My favorite thing to do during a nice, hot, shower is to TarantinoMaxx.

The Polar opposite of AndersonMaxxing, TarantinoMaxxing.
TarantinoMaxxing by Smelliottith December 25, 2023