two-step
[ too-step ]
noun
a ballroom dance in duple meter, marked by sliding steps.
a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance.
verb (used without object),two-stepped, two-step·ping.
to dance the two-step.
Origin of two-step
1First recorded in 1890–95
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How to use two-step in a sentence
You won't be two-stepping down the aisle at St. Gudule, but you'll agree that it's a very pretty party.
Castle Craneycrow | George Barr McCutcheonThen Gray took his arm and led him across to where the attempt at two-stepping had broken up in laughing disorder.
The Power and the Glory | Grace MacGowan Cooke
British Dictionary definitions for two-step
two-step
noun
an old-time dance in duple time
a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of such a dance
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