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Stepper
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- 1 A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
"I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them."
- 2 a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting wordnet
- 3 A dancer.
"Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper.""
- 4 a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps wordnet
- 5 A dancer in a step show.
"Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping."
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- 6 a professional dancer wordnet
- 7 A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
- 8 A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
- 9 A type of exercise machine.
"I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead."
- 10 Anything that moves or advances in steps.
"The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers."
- 11 A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing. colloquial, especially, in-plural
""And I would dress smack daddy down." Tawanda throws her head back, laughing. "The other girls was all lacy-like, with high heels; I had steppers, low heels like men's spectator shoes, and pointy toes. I got the foot for it and I got the height; I would put on the suit, the pantsuit, go out there with my megaphone, and step—I would STEP!" She hops to her feet and does a step or two."
- 12 A prison treadmill. UK, historical, obsolete, slang
"On the treadmill we were shut up in little boxes, almost pitch dark, and the handrail to catch hold of when treading the mill was so high […] I refused point blank, one morning, to go on the stepper on plea of illness, […]"
- 13 A foot. slang
- 14 The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws. slang
Etymology
From step + -er.
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