tap dancer

1. 1.

   a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes

   Synonymstapper

   Broaderdancer

Questions about tap dancer

What does tap dancer mean?

tap dancer means "a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes".

What is another word for tap dancer?

Close synonyms include tapper. 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 tap dancer a common word?

tap dancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.