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Beat a touch upset in dance (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lambada

'dance' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'beat a touch upset' is the wordplay.
'beat' becomes 'lam' (I've seen this before**).
'touch' becomes 'dab' (dab is a kind of touch).
'upset' says the letters should be written backwards.
'a'+'dab'='adab'
'adab' backwards is 'bada'.
'lam'+'bada'='LAMBADA'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for lambada that I've seen before include "Lively Brazilian dance" , "few steps?" , "Erotic Brazilian dance" , "Fast Brazilian 3 dn" , "Fast Brazilian dance - mad Baal (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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