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A hoofer is a dancer, especially one who works in the theatre — musicals, stage shows, old Broadway. The word has a warm show-business feel, a little old and mostly American, and tap dancers get the name most of all. It comes from a slang verb to hoof, meaning to dance, and that verb comes from hoof, the hard foot of a horse, because dancing is work you do with your feet. You would not print hoofer on a concert poster (that would just say dancer), but among theatre people it can sound like respect for someone who really works the floor. Though actually, it is not a word for every kind of dance: a ballerina is unlikely to call herself a hoofer, and a school dance student probably will not either.
舞者（老派說法，多指舞台或踢踏舞者）
組成hoof (slang verb “to dance”) + -er (the person who does it). The noun hoof is the hard foot of a horse, going back through Old English hōf.
同家族的字
- hoofthe animal’s foot; slang “to hoof” means to dance, and a hoofer is the person who does it
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hoofernoun
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slangA professional dancer, particularly one who has paid his or her dues.
- Once a good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings, ran up to that tree, gave it a big smack, and yelled “Lawd please make me a pimp, any kind of a pimp, long as I’m pimpin’. I’m tired of scufflin’ and my feet are too long outa work.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。