tap-dancingn.

1928 Daily Express 27 June 9 The inventor of tap dancing.

1932 Sunday Express 3 July 9/2 Her tap-dancing is as perfect as her ballet.

1934 Evening News 1 Mar. 11/2 If the working girl doesn't do her bending and stretching, then she joins a tap-dancing class.

1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 33 She wished to study tap-dancing, and to broaden the mind.

1972 Guardian 29 Jan. 9/4 I started as a dancer: tap dancing, acrobatic dancing, funny dancing.

1977 D. MacKenzie Raven & Ratcatcher ii. 19 Tap-dancing schools.

1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan July 56/2 Miss Billy Perry is worth a few peeks, especially when she is out on the floor of Miss Missouri Martin's Sixteen Hundred Club doing her tap dance.

1931 G. Cadwell (title) How to tap dance.

1946 R. Campbell Talking Bronco 25 The tap-dance of the morning stars.

1950 J. D. MacDonald Brass Cupcake (1955) i. 11 He stood up and tap-danced me out to the gate.

1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 100 The moths tap-danced on the fly-screens.

1972 Guardian 28 Jan. 9/1 The lacquered, ringletted monsters who tap-danced their way into the weepies.

1977 N. Adam Triplehip Cracksman xvii. 171 A larger one [sc. table] which would have made a good one-shot tap-dance floor.

1978 W. F. Buckley Stained Glass xxi. 209 He could be tap dancing on it and still he'd be a goner.

1927 New Republic 12 Oct. 210/1 That fair singer, good tap-dancer, born-to-the-purple, bred-in-the-bone, works-while-she-sleeps comedian, the plump May Barnes.

1941 Penguin New Writing 10 17 The sergeant..had been a tap-dancer in civilian life.

1974 Listener 17 Jan. 92/2 Old-fashioned, out-dated routines: middle-aged black tap-dancers, a middle-aged blonde.