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Dance for doctor? (8,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

medicine ball

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'dance for doctor?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'dance for doctor?' is the wordplay.
'dance' becomes 'ball' (ball is a kind of dance).
'for' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'doctor?' becomes 'medicine' (I've seen this before).
'ball' after 'medicine' is 'MEDICINE-BALL'.

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(Other definitions for medicine ball that I've seen before include "used in physical training" , "social event at Barts?" , "Heavyweight" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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