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Dance in duple time
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two-step
Word definitions for two-step in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dance style, 1893, from two + step (n.); so called for the time signature of the music (as distinguished from the three-step waltz). But as the positions taken by the dancers involved direct contact, it was highly scandalous in its day and enormously popular.\n\nA ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Two-step or two step may refer to: In dance : Two-step (dance move) , a dance move used in a wide range of dancing genres Country-western two-step , also known as the Texas Two-step Nightclub Two Step , also known as the California Two-step 2-step (breakdance ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A little two-step , two-step, make-a-new-step, slide, slide and strut on down. ▪ I had to do a quick two-step to catch up with her. ▪ Others did a delicate two-step around it. ▪ Some of the members moved and clapped or did a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Two-step \Two"-step`\, n. A kind of round dance in march or polka time; also, a piece of music for this dance. [U. S.]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps 2 A piece of music for this dance
Usage examples of two-step.
The man's going to two-step out of at the very least a probation-violation and prosecution on all his old highly convictable charges because I have to pitch the case, for the sake of my own recovery, I, who wanted nothing so much as to see this man locked down in a cell with some psychopathic cellmate for the rest of his natural life, who shook my fist at the ceiling and vowed ' and again the noise, this time muffled by the fine hat and so less well-muffled, his shoes pounding a little on the carpet in rage so that Pat's dogs raised their heads and looked quizzically at him, and the epileptic one had a very small loud-noise seizure.
Each couple on the floor danced whatever was in the fellow's head: tango, two-step, bossa nova, slop.
The way they tell it, your average drover spends his days fighting off fifty Comanche braves with one hand and untying a beautiful gal from the railroad tracks with the other, all the while with a lit stick of dynamite clenched in his teeth, pearl-handled six-guns in his holster, and a horse that dances the Texas two-step every time he whistles She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain.
Aurora consigns him to the other lady like a pork belly futures contract on the commodity exchange, and suddenly Randy and the lady are dancing the Texas two-step to the strains of a pre-disco Bee Gees tune.
When she stood on the first step of the two-step stool, the top of her head was only ten inches from the skylight.
Using the two-step stool, she climbed upon the bed and stretched out between the cool, fragrant sheets.
And as she moved backward before him, overrouged, overjewelled and oversimpering, in a skippy little hop that was probably the last actively-surviving example of the 1905 two-step, the wide entryway to the ballroom slowly turntabled around into frontal perspective and came before him.