Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.
a kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville.
Hyphenation
a kind of tap dan-cing performed in soft-soled shoes, po-pu-lar in vaude-ville