footwork

English

Etymology

foot +‎ work

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

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.

Further reading

• footwork (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia