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moonwalk

moon·walk

UK/ˈmuːnwɔːk/ US/ˈmunwɔk/ uncommon

noun

1.

a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot

  • “Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s”
2.

an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon

Origin

From Moon + walk. * (backslide): Coined by Michael Jackson in 1983, when popularizing the backslide and renaming it.

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