flatfooting

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noun

A traditional form of clogging danced in Appalachia.

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Meanings

nounflatfooting (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA traditional form of clogging danced in Appalachia.

    Evenings offer dances, flatfooting workshops, films, jam sessions, and slow jams for beginners.

    2003, The Old-time Herald: A Magazine Dedicated to Old-time Music
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    Although square dancing is popular in the Coalfields of Kentucky, flatfooting, or "dancing" is currently the only old-time dancing in Dante.

    1995, Susan Eike Spalding, Jane Harris Woodside, Communities in Motion

    Solo dancing (outside the context of the big circle dance) is known in various places as buck dance, flatfooting, hoe-down, jigging, sure-footing, and/or stepping.

    1998, Selma Jeanne Cohen, International encyclopedia of dance
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of flatfoot
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APA

flatfooting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatfooting

MLA

“flatfooting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatfooting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flatfooting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flatfooting.

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