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two-step
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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 certain Division of an Auxiliary gave a dance not long since. I went and looked on. What did they dance? Two-step, two-step and two-step. How did they dance? When we used to waltz, we clasped arms easily, took a nice, respectable position, and danced in a poetry of motion. Now, girls, how do you two-step? In nine cases out of ten the dear girl reposes her head on the young man's shoulder, or else their faces press each other. He presses her to his breast as closely as possible, and actually carries her around. Disgraceful? I should say so. Do you wonder at the ministers preaching on dancing as a sin, when it looks like this to a woman like myself who believes in dancing and has danced all her life? Mothers, as you love your girls, forbid them to dance after this manner. [letter in the ladies' section of "Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal," March 1898]\n
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\nTo the Two Step may be accredited, serious injury to the Waltz, awkward and immodest positions assumed in round dancing, also as being a prominent factor in overcrowding the profession and causing a general depression in the business of the legitimate Master of Dancing.
["The Director," March 1898]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps 2 A piece of music for this dance
WordNet
n. a ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps
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 move), an acrobatic maneuver used in breakdancing
In music:
- Two Step (song), a single released by the Dave Matthews Band in 1996
- " 2 Step", a single released by DJ Unk in 2007
- 2-step garage, a subgenre of UK garage music
Other:
- Two Step Cliffs
- Two-Step (comics)
- Two Step (film), a 2014 American thriller film
The two-step is a step found in various dances, including many folk dances.
A two-step consists of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a closing step with the other foot. For example, a right two-step forward is a forward step onto the right foot, a closing step with the left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed, as long as the closing foot does not go past the other foot.
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.