a kind of tap dance performed in soft-soled shoes:he could dance a jig or a soft-shoe [mass noun]: the choreography combines tap, classical ballet, and soft-shoe [as modifier]:a soft-shoe shuffle
verb
[no object]
perform a soft-shoe tap dance:I didn’t remember Pearl could soft-shoe
[with adverbial of direction] move quietly and carefully so as not to draw attention to oneself:I soft-shoed after him figurativehe soft-shoed into a safer topic of conversation
soft-shoe in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of soft-shoe in the US English dictionary
