Main Entry: tap dance

Function: noun

Date: 1928

1 : a step dance tapped out audibly by means of shoes with hard soles or soles and heels to which taps have been added
2 : something suggesting a tap dance; especially : an action or discourse intended to rationalize or distract <does a clever tap dance to explain — Campbell Geeslin>

— tap–dance intransitive verb

— tap dancer noun

— tap dancing noun