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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)
- to dance the 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of two-step1
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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