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adjective
noting a pace, as in walking contests, in which the heel of the front foot touches ground before the toes of the rear one leave it.
Origin:
1810–20
1810–20
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Heel-and-toe
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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| heel-and-toe | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of or denoting a style of walking in which the heel of the front foot touches the ground before the toes of the rear one leave it |
| —vb | |
| 2. | (intr) (esp in motor racing) to use the heel and toe of the same foot to operate the brake and accelerator |
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