one-step

[ wuhn-step ]
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noun
  1. a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.

  2. a piece of music for this dance.

verb (used without object)
  1. to dance the one-step.

Origin of one-step

1
First recorded in 1910–15

Words Nearby one-step

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How to use one-step in a sentence

  • To her relief, the orchestra struck up a one-step, and the girls all separated to dance.

  • And Kitts will spring the book on Windy again, I feel it in my bones, and if he does—choose your partners for the one-step!

    Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan

British Dictionary definitions for one-step

one-step

noun
  1. an early 20th-century ballroom dance with long quick steps, the precursor of the foxtrot

  2. a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance

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