Stepper

Quick meaning: Stepper is a noun meaning A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.

Meaning

A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.

More Meanings

1. A dancer.
2. (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.
3. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
4. A type of exercise machine.
5. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
6. (colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.
7. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).

Example Sentences

Shall I call your vader then? He's a most accomplished stepper. He can show you how to dance.

Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."

I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.

He was a fancy stepper, and no doubt he figured that a good jig dance would improve his chances with Sis Hartnett.

Word Forms

• steppers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stepdancer, overstepper, strider, sidestepper, steerer, steeplechaser.

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