quickstep
IPA: kwˈɪkstɛp
noun
- A fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork.
verb
- To dance the quickstep.
- To move with a hurried step.
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Examples of "quickstep" in Sentences
- I think that their quickstep was the best so far tonight.
- I was a bit afraid of the quickstep because everyone said it was challenging.
- He believed the footwork required for the quickstep was a crucial ingredient of batting skill.
- "The quickstep will be a thank you for all the opportunities we've received coming to America."
- I think the quickstep will be a better dance for them and they'll both learn from the first week.
- What my mother left me was not dancing shoes or diamond rings or bad luck with men it was the way she stood so straight barely reaching my shoulder but tall on days when life bends most people low and that quickstep of hers forward always to music only she could imagine
- On my favorite dance show, "So You Think You Can Dance," they call the quickstep the "Kiss of Death" because it is intricate, quick and not necessarily as big a crowd pleaser as the more dramatic or romantic dances - so any couple who gets burdened with it usually ends up going home the next week.
- Yet once they start dancing, the effect is pure gold: the thumpy rhythms of their feet on the wooden floor of a park pavilion, the couple's shared power and mutual athleticism, their whizzing quickstep that feels like the Earth's been knocked off its axis and the effortless, ecstatic, romantic joy of it all.
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