Definitions for one-step

one-step one-step

Spelling: [wuhn-step]
IPA: /ˈwʌnˌstɛp/

One-Step is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in one-step (-eenopst).

Definitions for one-step

noun

  1. a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  2. a piece of music for this dance.

verb (used without object)

  1. to dance the one-step.

Origin of one-step

First recorded in 1910-15

Examples for one-step

By this time he was able to pull through on the one-step and the canter waltz, but his great success was the fox-trot.

one-step, fox-trot and a Lulu Fado followed in smooth succession.

A one-step was just over, and the dancers were crowding the foyer.

The very nature of the waltz contrasted sharply with the one-step.

But, seriously, doesn't the rhythm of that one-step make you instinctively want to dance?

He clasped her, conscious of her smooth warmth, and solemnly he circled in a heavy version of the one-step.

The ragtime had a cracked, heart-broken rhythm as though it were a one-step of despair.

His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.

For what was a two-step now compared to the one-step which Pee-wee had taken?

Elderly ladies loved to have him one-step with them and squeeze their elbows.

Word Value for one-step
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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