Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

A Motion Picture Classic writer who witnessed the Reids at the Sunset Inn wrote, “Wally is some stepper. Let me tell you the boy can dance."

Should there be a fey fiddler secreted among the musicians, or a seelie stepper on the dance floor, then the final tune of the evening could end with you dancing off with them, never to return.

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

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

Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping.

Just as the early circular routines of fraternity and sorority steppers suggest the influence of patting juba, so too may they reflect another early African American dance form, the “ring shout.”

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