floor-filler
English
Alternative forms
- floor filler
Etymology
See dance floor.
Noun
floor-filler (plural floor-fillers)
- (informal) A music track that is likely to encourage people to dance when played at a club, etc.
- 2017, Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British Invasion.
Synonyms
- dance-floor filler
Further reading
- “floor-filler”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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