one-step
[wuhn-step]
- a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- a piece of music for this dance.
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- to dance the one-step.
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Origin of one-step
First recorded in 1910–15
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disco, waltz, rock, samba, tango, tap, skip, jump, shimmy, trip, caper, jig, leap, hop, frolic, sway, cavort, hustle, whirl, strutExamples from the Web for one-step
Contemporary Examples
His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.
Historical Examples
A one-step was just over, and the dancers were crowding the foyer.
Elderly ladies loved to have him one-step with them and squeeze their elbows.
The InnocentsSinclair Lewis
One-step, fox-trot and a Lulu Fado followed in smooth succession.
A Man's HearthEleanor M. Ingram
For what was a two-step now compared to the one-step which Pee-wee had taken?
Pee-Wee Harris AdriftPercy Keese Fitzhugh
The very nature of the waltz contrasted sharply with the one-step.
The Blood Red DawnCharles Caldwell Dobie
one-step
- 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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