toe-tapping

adjective

Of music: having a pleasing rhythm.

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Meanings

adjectivetoe-tapping (comparative more toe-tapping, superlative most toe-tapping)

comparative more toe-tapping · superlative most toe-tapping

  1. idiomaticOf music: having a pleasing rhythm.
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    Questions of bad taste have hung around Dear Evan Hansen since it debuted on Broadway in 2016, though such qualms were mostly drowned out by praise for Platt’s visceral live performance and the catchy Broadway-by-way-of-Christian-rock tunes from wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who are also responsible for the toe-tapping numbers from The Greatest Showman).

    2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of toe-tap
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APA

toe-tapping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toe-tapping

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“toe-tapping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toe-tapping. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “toe-tapping,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toe-tapping.

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