Meaning

12 senses
  1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.

  2. A dancer.

    a professional dancer

  3. A dancer in a step show.

  4. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.

    a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps

  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.

  9. (slang)A foot (appendage of the leg).

  10. (slang)The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.

  11. A kind of driving rhythm or drumbeat in reggae music.

  12. (UK, historical, obsolete, slang)A prison treadmill.

Origin

From step + -er.

From step + -er.

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Forms

plural: steppers
Singularstepper
Pluralsteppers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting:high stepper
  • a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps:stepping motor
  • a professional dancer:hoofer

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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