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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructiveadjective

    preventing movement

    "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"

Wikipedia

  1. Clogging

    Clogging is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm. Clogging is the official state dance of Kentucky and North Carolina.

ChatGPT

  1. clogging

    Clogging is a type of heavy, rhythmic stepping dance that originated among the working classes in the United Kingdom and the United States. In another context, clogging can also refer to the act of blocking or hindering the flow or passage in a pipe, tube, or other passage by filling it with something or becoming filled.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Clogging

    of Clog

  2. Cloggingnoun

    anything which clogs

Wikidata

  1. Clogging

    Clogging is a type of folk dance in which the dancer's footwear is used musically by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible percussive rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm. The dance style has since fused with others including African-American rhythms, and the Peruvian dance "zapateo", resulting in the birth of newer street dances, such as tap, locking, jump, hakken, stomping, Gangsta Walking, and the Candy Walk dance. The use of wooden-soled clogs is rarer in the more modern dances since clog shoes are not commonly worn in urban society, and other types of footwear have replaced them in their evolved dance forms. Clogging is often considered the first form of street dance because it evolved in urban environments during the industrial revolution. As the clogging style has evolved over the years, many localities have made contributions by adding local steps and rhythms to the style. The dance has origins in Wales and England. In the fifteenth century the all-wooden clog was replaced by a leather-topped shoe with a one-piece wooden bottom. By the 16th century a more conventional leather shoe with separate wooden pieces on the heel and toe called "flats" became popular, from where the terms "heel and toe" and "flatfooting" derive.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clogging in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clogging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of clogging in a Sentence

  1. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

    Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing loans that are clogging the economy's credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship, the differences that remain concern how we understand the relationships between the various reforms and the macro environment.

  2. Edward B. Wagner:

    Stop wasting jail space on prostitutes, drug users and other victimless criminals. Even if we find it morally acceptable to imprison these people for choices they make regarding their bodies, we must realize that we simply cannot afford to continue clogging the court system and the prison system with these harmless criminals.

  3. Kristi Noem:

    This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

  4. Charles Sorenson:

    It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

  5. F. M. Young:

    It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

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