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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/

名詞

footwork (usually uncountable, plural footworks)

1. Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.

   The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.

2. (uncountable, music) A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
   • 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian‎:

     In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.

関連する語

• legwork

Further reading

• footwork (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia