hoofer n.
(US) a dancer of either sex; a chorus-girl or chorus-boy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Sun (NY) 14 Nov. 61/1: The hoofers have unanimously decided that the old stuff will do no longer. The one steppers have been put on the shelf. | |
| Morn. Tulsa Daily World (OK) 21 May 50/4: Hoofers are just as refined as waitresses, usherettes, duchesses or even manicures. | |
| ‘Guns of Gangland’ Gangster Stories Dec. 🌐 A slim, palefaced youth, one of Martelli’s hoofers. | |
| ‘Dream Street Rose’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 47: In this street you see burlesque dolls, and hoofers. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | News of the World 11 June 6: A down-town chorus hoofer. | |
| Really the Blues 208: A good friend of mine, a fine hoofer who was having trouble getting bookings. | |
| Mad mag. Jul.–Aug. 4: Burlesque. Our girls belong to FLESH: Follies League Employing Sexy Hoofers. | |
| How to Talk Dirty 33: The hoofer had originally bought it from a drag queen. | |
| Picture Palace 171: He’s a hoofer at heart. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1959) Up the Cross 104: Gloria [...] was a nightclub hoofer and warbler. | |
| Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 291: Hey, it’s Fred [...] Pipes aren’t quite as good as old Harry Bright’s, but not so bad for a hoofer. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 168: A failed marriage to a nightclub hoofer. | |
| Never a Normal Man 117: He had started as a ‘hoofer’ in vaudeville. | |
| Mystery Bay Blues 62: Grace was a bit of a hoofer with a few vodkas uner her belt. She shook her boobs and shimmied. | |
| ‘Polari’ 🎵 on Polari [album] Beach in the screech. Alamo jo! / This dizzy hoofer gonna dowry jeebo. / Varda me fatcha, meshigner bona. / Savvy you gettin fericadooza. | |
| Guardian G2 8 Aug. 🌐 The story is not a million miles from the hoofers in Strictly Ballroom. | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 220: [...] before introducing the first looper-hoofers. |