one-step

[wuhn-step]

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noun

a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.

a piece of music for this dance.

verb (used without object)

to dance the one-step.

Origin of one-step

First recorded in 1910–15

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Related Words for one-step

disco, waltz, rock, samba, tango, tap, skip, jump, shimmy, trip, caper, jig, leap, hop, frolic, sway, cavort, hustle, whirl, strut

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Contemporary Examples of one-step

His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.
Mickey Rooney Was Hollywood’s Golden Age Showman
Lorenza Muñoz
April 7, 2014

Historical Examples of one-step

A one-step was just over, and the dancers were crowding the foyer.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914
Various
Elderly ladies loved to have him one-step with them and squeeze their elbows.
The Innocents
Sinclair Lewis
One-step, fox-trot and a Lulu Fado followed in smooth succession.
A Man's Hearth
Eleanor M. Ingram
For what was a two-step now compared to the one-step which Pee-wee had taken?
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
The very nature of the waltz contrasted sharply with the one-step.
The Blood Red Dawn
Charles Caldwell Dobie

British Dictionary definitions for one-step

one-step

noun

an early 20th-century ballroom dance with long quick steps, the precursor of the foxtrot

a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance

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