toedance

present singular third person toedances · participle present toedancing · participle past toedanced · past toedanced

1. alternativeAlternative form of toe-dance.

   Comedian of love, my wind willed boy has entered the bees' abode, the danger yard of roses his second spring to toedance with the wasps.

   1956, Harold Witt, “Boy”, in Saturday review, volume 39, page 23

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   Senator SMATHERS: I forgot what that answer was to my question which was whether you had made up your mind on where an individual is requesting and whether you would allow the individual to increase the number of television stations which he owned. Did you answer that? Mr. LEE: No. I was toedancing a little bit.

   1954, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Nomination of Robert E. Lee to be a member of the FCC, page 29

   He toedanced and swung at imaginary opponents as this contender or that and would stop and thoughtfully indicate just what had been the crucial blow to end the fight and where and with what velocity it had landed on the face or body of his opponent.

   1998, Richard Elman, Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs, page 19

   Like a lost chord reflected from always. "Yo' name?" & she lit up the room w/ this black sensuality that made him toedance around her, trying to tie her up.

   2000, Amiri Baraka, The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, page 360

   ... yes over there they dance in Chicago in new york in detroit in los angeles in d.c. they toedance, the big toe pointing outward toward that star, the one that scorched an earth for katherine and carmen and judith and debbie and you....

   2005, Sable: The Lit Mag for New Writing - Issues 7-10, page 117

   I want a person who's in a senior position busy serving the people, not chasing around at night, trying to toedance between his responsibilities to his family and his family and his latest hot chick.

   2015, R. Edward Turner, Quotable Perot, page 100

plural toedances

1. alternativeAlternative form of toe dance.

   The number isn't a toedance, the entire project is preposterous, and then, having shown us how delicately she can work, she proceeds to tap on the toes.

   1997, More Opening Nights on Broadway

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   Brother Fatleigh getting tight and offering the name of his bootlegger to the Dean of Women . . . the raucous song — , the little import who insists on doing a toedance — the spirited punch — the jazz that launched a thousand hips !"

   1926, Lynn Montross, Lois Montross, Fraternity Row, page 44

   We will give them the keys to existence and drive them crazy present then with a fishbowl which will recite a poem; have a toedance performed by a pedagogical whale with a ballet of riderless bicycles.

   1954, Numbers - Volumes 1-3, page 10