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two-step

[ too-step ]

noun

  1. a ballroom dance in duple meter, marked by sliding steps.
  2. a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance.


verb (used without object)

, two-stepped, two-step·ping.
  1. to dance the two-step.

two-step

noun

  1. an old-time dance in duple time
  2. a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of such a dance


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Word History and Origins

Origin of two-step1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

There appears to be a simple two-step formula to transform yourself into a professional arm wrestler.

They were released two weeks later, largely due to the diplomatic two-step carried out by British Embassy officials in Tehran.

Phase one of the two-step deficit-reduction deal involves about $1 trillion in spending cuts.

But the little two-step enabled the president to cast himself as requiring adult behavior from both sides.

CBO creates its long-term deficit projections with a bizarre two-step operation.

Mr. Norwood brought out from the city a two-step amplifier and a horn and they were attached to the instrument.

One would hardly recognize the waltz or two-step as performed by the Visayan.

It was a two-step, and all the young people clapped for the band to go on.

For what was a two-step now compared to the one-step which Pee-wee had taken?

Minerva Skybrow heard him and paused aghast in the midst of a two-step.

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