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Footwork

Noun CEFR B2
ˈfʊt.wɜːk

Definitions

  1. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
  2. A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.

Equivalents

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Examples

The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.”
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.”
“In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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