gravedance

English

Etymology

grave +‎ dance

Noun

gravedance (plural gravedances)

1. A celebratory dance performed on a grave.
   • 2000, Michael Rowe, Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, →ISBN, page 140:

     And to know them, you must know Black Jack Mojo, the gravedance runner.

2. (figurative) The celebration of a person's downfall.
   • 2013 April 8, Vembu, “No 'smoking gun' to prove Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman”, in Firstpost:

     Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure!

   • 2014, D. N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory, →ISBN, page 207:

     […] theory's endings are recurrent, multiple, and interminable, and that each proclamation of its passing, every mournful eulogy or triumphant gravedance, yields renewed and often powerful examinations of its powers, goals, histories, meanings, and values.

Verb

gravedance (third-person singular simple present gravedances, present participle gravedancing, simple past and past participle gravedanced)

1. Synonym of dance on someone's grave