one-step
Americannoun
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a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
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a piece of music for this dance.
verb (used without object)
noun
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an early 20th-century ballroom dance with long quick steps, the precursor of the foxtrot
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a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
Etymology
Origin of one-step
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Chinese investors are spending millions of dollars to build plants to process lithium, one-step up the value chain, in a form that Zimbabwe would allow to exit.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
The county has promised to turbocharge the sluggish pace, enacting a one-step permitting center and waiving some fees.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026
The team also noted that drawings showing ordinal representations were more frequently associated with a one-step solution, even if the problem was cardinal.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024
Gojo was founded in 1946, when rubber factory worker Goldie Lippman and her husband, Jerry, partnered with chemistry professor Clarence Cook to invent what became the world's first one-step, rinse-off hand cleaner.
From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2023
But in the dances in two-four time their way was more our way, something between a one-step, a mattchiche, and a tango, with strange fascinating steps of their own devising, a folk-dance manner....
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
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