Party in Rio? A doctor gets involved in it (5)
I believe the answer is:
samba
'party in rio?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.
'a doctor gets involved in it' is the wordplay.
'doctor' becomes 'mb' (Bachelor of Medicine, Medicinae Baccalaureus).
'gets involved in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'it' becomes 'sa' (old-fashioned abbreviation for sex appeal).
'a'+'mb'='amb'
'amb' placed inside 'sa' is 'SAMBA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for samba that I've seen before include "This ambassador's > brisk steps" , "Dance music" , "Latin dance" , "Dance, originally from Brazil" , "it was launched in Brazil" .)