footwork
nounUK, US /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/
Etymology From foot + work.
1
Usually Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
- 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.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012:
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Usually A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
- In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021:
3
Informal, Usually Finesse.
- It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.
- Related terms
- legwork