单词 | touch-dance |
释义 | touch-dancev. Originally and chiefly U.S. intransitive. To dance in a manner involving close physical contact with a partner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frisk?1520 hobble1535 caper1598 to cut a caper or capersa1616 to dance Barnaby1664 to dance low1667 jig1672 to fike and flinga1689 shuffle1819 slow-step1909 dingolay1935 touch-dance1972 headbang1977 to funk out1979 to strut one's funky stuff1979 krump2004 1972 Harper's Bazaar Oct. 72/3 Freddie doesn't touch dance at all. 1993 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 21 Oct. 4 b Older couples touch-dancing to Frank Sinatra on the first floor. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. d6 They jumped and bumped, whooped and whistled to the beat, with some even touch-dancing ‘Saturday Night Fever’-style, as if it were 1977. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1972 |
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