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tear up the dance floor

tear up the dance floor verb: to engage vigorously in dancing.

Verb

tear up the dance floor (third-person singular simple present tears up the dance floor, present participle tearing up the dance floor, simple past tore up the dance floor, past participle torn up the dance floor)

  1. (idiomatic) To engage vigorously in dancing.

Forms of tear up the dance floor

third-person singular presenttears up the dance floor
present participletearing up the dance floor
pasttore up the dance floor
past participletorn up the dance floor

Questions about tear up the dance floor

What does tear up the dance floor mean?
Tear up the dance floor means to engage vigorously in dancing.
What part of speech is tear up the dance floor?
Tear up the dance floor is a verb.
What is the past tense of tear up the dance floor?
The past tense of tear up the dance floor is tore up the dance floor.

Words near tear up the dance floor in the dictionary

  1. tear tape
  2. tear tapes
  3. tear to pieces
  4. tear to shreds
  5. tear up
  6. tear up the dance floor
  7. tear up the pea patch
  8. tear-ass
  9. tear-assed
  10. tear-asses
  11. tear-assing

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