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one-step

[ wuhn-step ]

/ ˈwʌnˌstɛp /

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noun

a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.

a piece of music for this dance.

verb (used without object)

to dance the one-step.

Origin of one-step

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby one-step

one-shot, one-sided, one-size-fits-all, one-spot, one-star, one-step, one-stop, one-suiter, one-tailed, one-time, one-to-one

Example sentences from the Web for one-step

His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.

Mickey Rooney Was Hollywood’s Golden Age Showman |Lorenza Muñoz |April 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Elderly ladies loved to have him one-step with them and squeeze their elbows.

The Innocents |Sinclair Lewis
So they danced a one-step, and Joe managed to get through it without treading on anybodys toe.

Boy Scouts in Glacier Park |Walter Prichard Eaton
One-step, fox-trot and a Lulu Fado followed in smooth succession.

A Man's Hearth |Eleanor M. Ingram

There is always much dancing, for the natives are great dancers and were not the last to learn the one-step and hesitation.

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines |Isabel Anderson
The ragtime had a cracked, heart-broken rhythm as though it were a one-step of despair.

The Trembling of a Leaf |William Somerset Maugham

British Dictionary definitions for one-step

one-step

noun

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

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