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dance floor

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noun

    1. an area of floor in a disco, etc, where patrons may dance

    2. ( as modifier )

      dance-floor music

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But other regulars including Amy Dowden, Dianne Buswell, Katya Jones, Vito Coppola and Aljaz Skorjanec will be back on the dance floor.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Smash cut back to reality: The dance floor is almost entirely empty.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The author’s ambivalence resembles that of the fellow who supposedly protested the mixing of classes on the dance floor by commissioning a wood-and-plaster coffin as a costume for a Cornelys masquerade in 1771.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Instead, their positions were linked, with each pair maintaining a certain distance from others, similar to couples on a dance floor avoiding collisions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

But instead, the door opened up right beside the dance floor.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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