noun
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a modern ballroom dance in rapid quadruple time
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a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
verb
Etymology
Origin of quickstep
Example Sentences
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Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Feeling safe and among their own, they made many friends there while polishing off their tango and quickstep.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2023
Molly will dance her quickstep to Love On Top by Beyonce, while Fleur will perform her couple's choice dance to a Destiny's Child megamix.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2022
Carrie Ann calls it “a little wild” and cautions him to watch his posture, but she likes that it had way more passion than you usually see in a quickstep.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020
And as they left, the men were mostly silent; though they looked debonair enough with their swinging quickstep and easy carriage, and their frying-pan hats set at all sorts of rakish angles.
From Cavalry of the Clouds by Bott, Alan
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