floor-filler

English

Alternative forms

• floor filler

Etymology

See dance floor.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• dance-floor filler

Further reading

• “floor-filler”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.