footwork

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English

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Etymology

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From foot +‎ work.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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footwork (usually uncountable, plural footworks)

  1. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
    The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
    • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
      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.
  2. (uncountable, music) A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
    • 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian[2]:
      In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.

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