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hoof
verb- to dance US, 1916
- The highly paid babes who pose for the photographers are prettier but dumber than their sisters who hoof in the choruses. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 134, 1948
- Carrie Nugent, the sensational Negro tap dancer who’d hoofed her way around the world and been admired and acclaimed everywhere. — Ethel Waters, His Eye is on the Sparrow, p. 53, 1951
- [A]ll propped up by the copper wages of streetsinging, coffeehouse hoofing, bit parts in transient flicks, and the going rate for what I choose to call High Adventure. — Richard Farina, Long Time Coming and A Long Time Gone, p. 37, 1969
- to walk UK, 1641
- Meanwhile, the goat takes off down West Street. Guess he didn’t want to get locked up. We hoofed too — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 231, 1979
- If Bermondsey kids want to swim now they have to hoof-it to Rotherhithe. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 205, 1998
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