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Meaning of Footwork | Babel Free

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

العربية الحركة
日本語 フットワーク
Svenska fotarbete

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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