tap dance
noun
a dance in which the rhythm or rhythmical variation is audibly tapped out with the toe or heel by a dancer wearing shoes with special hard soles or with taps.
Example Sentences
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An ex-convict jewel thief enters the studio world of a dancer and her father, an old-time tap-dancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
Instead of a sidekick, there’s an obnoxious tap-dancer named Ray Malone who screeches like Jerry Lewis whenever he speaks, which, thankfully, he does not do often.
From Slate ● May 10, 2015
"We have all kinds of people come here, from young Korean students to older African Americans. They learn tap not to be the best tap-dancer ever but because it helps them grow as people."
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2014
Texan country singer Jerry Jeff Walker slurs his way through his lyrics but connects in a unique way, perhaps because he is the man who actually encountered the itinerant tap-dancer in a New Orleans jail.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2011
Videos of Tina Turner and Fats Waller flicker behind a flugelhorn signed by Miles Davis, ruffled dresses from the Supremes and a cream-color wooden prosthesis from the tap-dancer Clayton Peg Leg Bates.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
