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moonwalk

Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnwɔːk/
Definition of moonwalk

noun

  • 1an act or period of walking on the surface of the moon.
  • 2a dance with a gliding motion, in which the dancer appears to be moving forward but in fact is moving backwards: Jackson does the moonwalk in his current stageshow

verb

[no object]
  • 1walk on the surface of the moon: pictorial representations covering every subject from cave painting to moonwalking
  • 2dance the moonwalk.

Derivatives

moonwalker

noun

moonwalk in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of moonwalk in the US English dictionary
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