Usually means: Gentle, rhythmic tap dancing style.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word soft-shoe:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft-shoe: Merriam-Webster
  2. soft-shoe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. soft-shoe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. soft-shoe, soft-shoe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. soft-shoe: Vocabulary.com
  6. soft-shoe: Wordnik
  7. soft-shoe: Wiktionary
  8. soft-shoe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. soft-shoe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. soft-shoe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. soft-shoe: Dictionary.com
  12. soft-shoe: Rhymezone
  13. soft-shoe: FreeDictionary.org
  14. soft-shoe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. soft-shoe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft-shoe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See soft-shoeing as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Soft-shoe)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of soft shoe [(performing arts) A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville.]

Similar:
soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffle, softshoe, toeshoe, tap-dancing, sand shoe, stepdance, twinkletoes, toedance, kickshoe, more...

Opposite:
hard-shoe, tap dance, clogging

Phrases:
soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffle, more...

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Similar:
soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffle, softshoe, toeshoe, tap-dancing, sand shoe, stepdance, twinkletoes, toedance, kickshoe, more...

Opposite:
hard-shoe, tap dance, clogging

Phrases:
soft-shoe dancing, soft-shoe shuffle, more...



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