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footwork

/ˈfʊt.wɜːk/ noun B2
  1. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing. (uncountable) · The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.· The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness.
  2. A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s. (uncountable)
  3. Finesse. (informal, uncountable) · It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.

Plural footworks

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.