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Quick step, quickstep. World English Historical Dictionary

Quick step, quickstep. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quick step, quickstep 1.  Mil. The step used in marching in quick time. Also quasi-adv., at a quick step.

1 1802–76.  [see QUICK TIME].

2 1875.  W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 51. We now move, quick-step, over the pasture-fields.

3   transf.  1877.  Talmage, 50 Serm., 26. Nearly all the verses of the Bible have a quick-step.

4   2.  Mus. A march in military quick time.

5 1811.  Busby, Dict. Mus., Quick-step, a species of march generally written in two crotchets in a bar.

6 1885.  Alice D. Le Plongeon, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 384/1. The drum meanwhile beats a peculiar quickstep.

7 1897.  H. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, in Century Mag., April, 826. Bands were playing stirring quicksteps.

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