floor-filler

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Etymology

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See dance floor.

Noun

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floor-filler (plural floor-fillers)

  1. (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.

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