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tap dance

noun

1
: a step dance tapped out audibly by means of shoes with hard soles or soles and heels to which taps have been added
2
: something suggesting a tap dance
especially : an action or discourse intended to rationalize or distract
does a clever tap dance to explain Campbell Geeslin
tap-dance intransitive verb
tap dancer noun
tap dancing noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Academy Museum hosted an event Wednesday night in celebration of the exhibit’s opening, with a special tap dance performance by the Nicholas Brothers’ granddaughters, Cathie and Nicole (aka the Nicholas Sisters). Michaela Zee, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022 Iovine said that the show features a number of solos and dance numbers, one of which is a tap dance routine featuring Sonja and her best friend, Myra. Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022 Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2022 Asking me to tap dance alongside Sutton Foster is like asking me to play Novak Djokovic on the court. New York Times, 24 May 2022 The fundraiser also featured performances by Chloe Arnold’s tap dance band Syncopated Ladies, the singer-songwriter duo Barlow & Bear, R&B artist Ledisi and pop singer Tori Kelly. Ashley Hume, Variety, 22 June 2022 In the decades before, this neighborhood was a crucial site of interracial exchange and invention, a nursery not just for tap dance but for American theatrical dance in general — the kind that would long characterize Broadway musicals. New York Times, 8 June 2022 The Five Points are credited as the birthplace of modern tap dance. Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 7 May 2022 Nelly is a free Black woman and New York City bar owner who presides over the collision of Black and Irish-American cultures—and the birth of tap dance—in the notorious lower Manhattan neighborhood that was then known as the Five Points. Naveen Kumar, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tap dance was in 1928

See also: tap dance


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