What does footwork mean?
Footwork means Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing..
Footwork
/ˈfʊt.wɜːk/ · noun
Meaning
Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing..
Definitions by Sense
- Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
- (uncountable, music) A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
- (informal) Finesse.
Example Sentences
The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.
In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.
It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.
Synonyms for footwork
Antonyms for footwork
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Word Forms
- footworks
Usage Notes
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The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
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