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Reptile showing love for a voodoo priestess (5)

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mambo

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(Other definitions for mambo that I've seen before include "Quick Caribbean dance" , "voodoo priestess" , "Latin American dance of Haitian origin" , "voodoo woman" , "Dance derived from voodoo rituals" .)

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