to hoof

Examples

• All

• In the dying seconds, Michael Bradley hoofed a hopeful ball into the box.

  Blog text (8)

• Well, then I hoofs it.

  Emperor Jones (1933)

• Hey, Polly, I saw you hoofing at the employees' ball.

  Bachelor Mother (1939)

• When I'm hoofing, I mean really doing my thing, hitting it, nothing compares to that feeling in the world.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Hoofing it out on the barn floor one night with one of my best young writing students to The Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House," I discovered something essential about her generation and mine.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Manray is hoofing.

  Fiction book (2000)

• She just hoofed you in the sack, and you're going to leave them alone in a jail cell with one inept guard?

  Fiction book (1999)

• Now he was in his tenth cosmic year, and destiny was to equip him with a lasso to seize the Horses of the Moon and bring them showering and hoofing their way to Earth.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Given the number and potency of drinks downed in such places and the fact that a man in evening dress looks remarkably like a penguin and vice versa, a trained penguin took your place while you hoofed around to the Palace to confront Toodles, and then -- well, we won't go into details.

  Blog text (30)

• During the performance, the dancers really started to hoof, impressing the entire audience with their energy.

Synonyms

T

to tap

vsto hoof

44 4.1

To make rhythmic sounds with the feet when dancing

is a professional, vigorous stage dance rather than only a technique

C

to clog

vsto hoof

• UK

1 8.5

To dance with heavy stamping while wearing wooden shoes

is used mainly by professional performers in a vigorous stage style

S

to steppin'

vsto hoof

• Informal

8.4

Move your feet in time with music as a dance

is mainly a professional, vigorous stage dance rather than casual foot movement

H

to hoedown

vsto hoof

• US

7.8

To join in dancing at a lively country music party

is primarily a professional, vigorous stage dance rather than a social folk event

Antonyms

S

to stand still

75 1.0

Stay upright in one place without moving

Idioms

O

on the hoof

• Informal

7.4

Doing something quickly while you are busy or moving

Phrasal Verbs

H

to hoof it

• Informal

7 8.8

Walk somewhere instead of going by car or bus

Compounds

H

hoof-and-mouth disease

• UK

1 4.2

A contagious disease that causes fever and painful sores on the mouth and feet of animals like cows and sheep

C

cloven hoof

1 7.2

A hoof divided into two parts, like a cow's or sheep's

H

hoof mark

1 4.9

A mark that an animal with hard feet makes in soft ground

H

hoof pick

1 7.9

A small hooked tool to clean mud and stones from a horse's hoof

C

cleaning the hoof

6.8

Removing dirt and stones from a horse's foot to keep it healthy

C

cloven hoof

• Literature

8.9

A hoof split into two parts used in stories as a sign of the Devil

H

hoof-mark

7.1

A mark left in soft ground by an animal's foot like a horse

How Energetic

stomp

14 4.8

to hoof

• Archaic

1 9.0

to dance

∞ 1.0

to sway

77 2.4

Surface Forms

Etymology