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step dance

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See also: stepdance and step-dance

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From step +‎ dance.

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step dance (plural step dances)

  1. A dance emphasizing the dancer's steps.
  2. A postcopulatory behaviour of whistling ducks, genus Dendrocygna.

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step dance (third-person singular simple present step dances, present participle step dancing, simple past and past participle step danced)

  1. (intransitive) To perform a step dance.
    • 1903, Charles Edward Osborne, The life of Father Dolling, E. Arnold, page 254:
      [] place, where we boxed, played skittles, step-danced — a place in which I could say to all these dear street-corner, out-of-work people, "Come in and spend []

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