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footworks

footworks is the plural of footwork.

Meaning of footwork

Noun

footwork (usually uncountable, plural footworks)

  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.
  2. (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.

Questions about footworks

What is footworks the plural of?
Footworks is the plural of footwork.

Words near footworks in the dictionary

  1. footwhore
  2. footwhores
  3. footwoman
  4. footwomen
  5. footwork
  6. footworks
  7. footworn
  8. footwrap
  9. footwraps
  10. footwriting
  11. footy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footworks (page history and authors); footwork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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