dos a dos

• do-sa-do, dosado, dos-à-dos, do-se-do, do-si-do, dosido, dos-a-dos, dosey doe

From French dos à dos (“back to back”), from dos (“back”) (from Latin dorsum (“back”)) and à (from Latin ad (“to”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌdəʊsəˈdəʊ/, /ˌdəʊsiˈdəʊ/

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dos a dos

1. A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
2. (historical) A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.

dos a dos (not comparable)

1. Back to back.

   to sit dos a dos on a camel

   to dance dos a dos, so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back

• do paso
• square dance

dos a dos

1. mutually

• “dos a dos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28