dance-off

noun

ˈdan(t)s-ˌȯf

ˈdän(t)s-

plural dance-offs

: a dancing competition

The finals were a dance-off—one by one, each girl danced her routine alone, on stage, in front of an auditorium full of hundreds of strangers.—

Mark Coddington

One night they happened to catch a fox trot performed on Dancing With the Stars, the ABC battle-of-the-ballroom hit that paired … celebrities with professional dancers in a six-week dance-off.—

Michelle Andrews

Examples of dance-off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The episode was shot entirely in color — and crucially returns to color before the title card of the series (no dance-off opening credits in Episode 5, for obvious reasons) so that we’re eased back into the series’ normal visual style. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024 Infused with plenty of folk flair, that part of the medley culminated in an exhilarating dance-off. —

Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 Zoom in: The dance-off is being judged by several top breakers, including Philly's own BoxWon. —

Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024 Sometimes the inspiration is primarily formal, as when the dancers translate an etching of four colliding bulls into a four-way dance-off. —

The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dance-off

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