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ˈgoose-step, n. Mil.
a. An elementary drill in which the recruit is taught to balance his body on either leg alternately, and swing the other backwards and forwards.
b. A balance step, practised esp. by various armies in marching on ceremonial parades, in which the legs are alternately advanced without bending the knees.
1806Sir R. Wilson Jrnl. 11 Feb., The balance or goose-step introduced for their practice excites a fever of disgust. 1825D. L. Richardson Sonnets 32 Oft with aching bones, I marched the goose-step, cursing Serjeant Jones. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember II. ix. 164 You must have superintended a course of instruction in the goose-step in your day. 1916H. G. Wells Mr. Britling ii. i. 204 The small boys had discovered the goose-step. Ibid., They tried it them⁓selves, and then set out upon a goose-step propaganda. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment xiii. 182 Doing the Prussianist goose-step by way of pas de triomphe. 1941‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn i. ii. 21 The goose-step..is one of the most horrible sights in the world. 1971Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 3/6 As columns approached the Shah they broke into a goose-step.
Hence ˈgoose-step v. intr., to practise this drill; also occas. trans. Hence ˈgoose-stepping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1879Baring-Gould Germany I. 297 He sees them [recruits] posturing, goose-stepping, tumbling [etc.]. 1935H. R. L. Sheppard We say No viii. 97 Hitler's goose-stepping conscripts. 1938Reader's Digest Jan. 110/1 Chilean citizens of German blood are already goose⁓stepped by Nazi missionaries. 1941Koestler Scum of Earth 79 A helpless, bleeding prey to be stamped on by the boots of the goose-stepping conqueror. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 122/2 The remorseless goose⁓stepping of the glamorous female warrior. 1964C. Chaplin Autobiogr. xxv. 433 Greed has poisoned men's souls.., has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. 1967Listener 16 Mar. 370/3 The Nazi jackboot goose⁓stepping on the boulevards got his goat. 1970Daily Tel. 16 June 11/7 Women as well as men goose-step around the stage to the tat-tat of drums. Ibid. 10 Dec. 4/5 President Nyerere reviewed goose-stepping troops of Tanzania's army yesterday. |