Definitions for goose-step

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IPA: /ˈgusˌstɛp/

Goose-Step is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in goose-step (-eegoopsst).

Definitions for goose-step

noun

1. a marching step of some infantries in which the legs are swung high and kept straight and stiff.
2. a military exercise in which the body is balanced on one foot, without advancing, while the other foot is swung forward and back.

verb (used without object)

1. to march in a goose step:

Origin of goose-step

First recorded in 1875-80

Examples for goose-step

We'll all have to goose-step as the Crown Prince orders or—be shot.

When all the dances had ended, the dancers marched out with the goose-step.

There are no great dormitories where hundreds sleep, and no vast dining-room where they march in to the goose-step.

The goose-step, the manual and platoon took the place of the quadrille.

He's a soldier, he is—not a raw recruit that don't know the goose-step.

It was fun watching the new recruits learning the goose-step.

The goose-step is one of the foundations of the British Empire.

I laughed outright at one poor chap who was trying to goose-step.

But the pace was too funereal for the advocates of the goose-step.

There is determination, but there is no cock-sureness, no goose-step.