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goose step
1noun
- a marching step of some infantries in which the legs are swung high and kept straight and stiff.
- a military exercise in which the body is balanced on one foot, without advancing, while the other foot is swung forward and back.
goose-step
2[ goos-step ]
verb (used without object)
, goose-stepped, goose-step·ping.
- to march in a goose step:
Troops goose-stepped past the reviewing stand.
goose step
noun
- a military march step in which the leg is swung rigidly to an exaggerated height, esp as in the German army in the Third Reich
- an abnormal gait in animals
verb
- intr to march in goose step
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Notes
The term is sometimes used to suggest the unthinking loyalty of followers or soldiers: “Brown has a goose-step mentality.”
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Other Words From
- goose-stepper noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of goose step1
First recorded in 1800–10
Origin of goose step2
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
It required no revolution of his nature to learn to calculate the range and fire a field gun or to march the goose-step.
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There are no great dormitories where hundreds sleep, and no vast dining-room where they march in to the goose-step.
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There is determination, but there is no cock-sureness, no goose-step.
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It is mimic savage warfare uncontrolled, and far more real and warlike than the goose-step evolutions of European armies.
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My pace was slow and cautious; not quite so slow as the goose-step, but something near it.
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