hoof

1. 1.

   walk

   “let's hoof it to the disco”

   Synonymsfootleg ithoof it

   Broaderwalk

   colloquialism

2. 2.

   dance in a professional capacity

   Broaderdance

   slang · dance

Other forms of hoof

plural

hooves

past tense

hoofed·

present participle

hoofing·

third person

hoofs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoof

What does hoof mean?

hoof means "the foot of an ungulate mammal". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoof?

hoof has 1 syllable: hoof. In IPA it is /ˈhuf/.

What is another word for hoof?

Close synonyms include foot, leg it, hoof it. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoof a common word?

hoof is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.