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Two-step   /tu-stɛp/   Listen
Two-step

noun
1.
A ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps.





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"Two-step" Quotes from Famous Books



... imagine an American not dancing a two-step. You must do the next with me. Listen! It's 'Away Down Indiana' ... ah! I ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... quiet smile. "I don't think I'm playing the hog, exactly," he rejoined, evenly. "I guess maybe I'm thinking of the horse as much as anything. And not so much of him, either, maybe, as of you, the way you handle horses if they don't dance a two-step when you want a two-step. In about a week, Johnson," he continued, mildly, "you'd have that horse jabbed full of holes with them Mexican rowels of yours! He wouldn't stand for that kind of affection, or I'm no judge of horseflesh. He ain't used to it; he ain't that kind of a horse—your kind! You ...
— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton
... moved out into a broad walk and Archie saw that the house was brilliantly lighted. Suddenly the strains of a lively two-step drew their attention to a platform that extended out upon the lawn from the conservatory, and at the same moment electric lamps shone in dozens of Japanese lanterns along the hedge-lined paths. The Governor looked at his watch. It was ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... two-step on the loose-jointed old piano. A young man sang a serenade in Italian, and two girls, after much coaxing, consented to join in ...
— The Little Colonel's Hero • Annie Fellows Johnston
... band was playing an infectious two-step. At the girl's nod Jean beckoned one of her party, a tall, handsome boy who throughout the subsequent dance babbled into Lydia's ear an incessant paean in ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... said, "I desired to shock you. I don't really want any more. Shall we dance? Ilse! Why don't you seize Mr. Brisson and make him two-step?" ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Two-step" :   ballroom dancing, trip the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, ballroom dance, dance


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