Meaning of slue-foot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A foot that is large and turned outwards or is otherwise awry.
   Canada, US
2. A person with slue-feet.
   Canada, US
3. A detective or police officer.
   Canada, US, slang
4. A dance that had a brief popularity in the mid to late 1950s.

Examples

“'As the old folks say, it runs in the family - like double-jointed thumbs runs in Sis' Tempy's family, and slue-feet in Tom Jenkins's family.' This raised a smile. Tempy examined her thumbs, and Tom glanced down at his slue-foot with consequence, suddenly recognising them as ancestral trophies.”

“For, up a narrow little path which ran down athwart the face of the palisade came Uncle John Swafford with Robert Samuel on his arm; and behind them followed, grinning, the slew-foot Jim Swafford, with a blanket on his shoulder.”

“Military Intelligence seems to be on the spot in a quiet sort of way. I just met a G-2 slue-foot and he was a most efficient guy! They're keeping low, I think, until they nail their man.”

“Since Fred Astaire introduced it in the movie 'Daddy Longlegs,' the Slue-foot has become the new dance craze of the world.”

“A new dance is about to hit Melbourne — the slew foot. "How do you do it?" president Frank South of the Academy of Teachers of Dancing was asked. "Do it?" he said. "You just jump up and down. IT'S CRAZY!"”

“Already gaining momentum as a national dance craze is the "Sluefoot" dance improvised by Astaire to a song of Mercer's.”

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