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toedance

toedance is the alternative form of toe-dance.

toedance is the alternative form of toe dance.

Meaning of toe-dance

Verb

toe-dance (third-person singular simple present toe-dances, present participle toe-dancing, simple past and past participle toe-danced)

  1. (literally) To dance on en pointe or on the balls of one's feet.
    • At eight she could perform Chopin, sing Italian classics, paint and toe-dance.1947, Opera news - Volume 12, page 6
  2. (figuratively) To avoid an issue by equivocation, diplomacy, or changing the subject.
    • For five years, he toe-danced his way through a path of idiotic triple talk, before the FCC finally shouted him down.1966, Don McGuire, The Day Television Died, page 237

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Meaning of toe dance

Noun

toe dance (plural toe dances)

  1. (literally) A dance performed on the balls of the feet or en pointe.
    • In the excitement of trying to get the ball launched he may do a momentary toe dance, then crouch, stand, skip, or run before finally lobbing the ball a total of perhaps seven feet.1962, W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want to Raise a Boy?, page 65
  2. (figuratively) The act of avoiding an issue by equivocation, complicated diplomacy, or changing the subject.
    • One of my concerns, frankly, is that we are just kind of, you know, we hold a hearing and we talk about it a little bit, and then it disappears from the limelight, and we are kind of doing a toe dance around the problems in Liberia rather than really addressing the problems as forcefully as we...1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs, U.S. policies toward Liberia, Togo, and Zaire

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Forms of toedance

Verb
third-person singular presenttoedances
present participletoedancing
past participletoedanced
pasttoedanced
Noun
pluraltoedances

Questions about toedance

What is toedance the alternative form of?
Toedance is the alternative form of toe-dance.

Words near toedance in the dictionary

  1. toed out
  2. toed the line
  3. toed the mark
  4. toed the plank
  5. toed the rubber
  6. toedance
  7. toedanced
  8. toedances
  9. toedancing
  10. toedang
  11. toedangs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toedance (page history and authors); toe-dance (page history and authors); toe dance (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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