单词 | quickstep |
释义 | quickstepn.adv. A. n. 1. Military. Usually in form quick step. The step used in marching in quick time (quick time n. 2). Also in extended use. Cf. quick march n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > marching > step > specific sidestep1757 slow step1763 quickstep1766 high step1776 lockstep1787 goose-step1806 balance-step1833 1766 T. O'Loghlen Marine Volunteer iv. 68 The Men are to bring their Heels even, without halting, and begin the quick Step with the Right Feet. 1775 T. Pickering Easy Plan Discipline for Militia ii. iv. 49 Some people have an ill way of performing the quick-step, by taking very short steps, and stamping hard. 1798 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 18 To train troops to the ‘quick step’. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Quick Step, or Quick Time, is 108 steps of 30 inches each, or 270 feet in a minute, and is the step used in all filings of divisions. 1877 T. De W. Talmage 50 Serm. 26 Nearly all the verses of the Bible have a quick-step. 1954 B. Liddell Hart Strategy (ed. 2) viii. 113 The French now marched and fought at a quick step of 120 paces to the minute, while their opponents adhered to the orthodox 70 paces. 1999 tr. A. Muñoz in W. F. Sater Holger & H. Herwig Grand Illusion iii. 131 The whistle replaces the coronet; the German goose step supplants the quick step. 2. Music. A march (march n.5 6) in military quick time. Cf. quick march n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > march march1588 dead march1603 funeral march1633 death march1762 quickstepc1790 quick march1791 wedding-march1850 c1790 C. G. Zierlein (title) A Slow March & Quick Step... Dedicated to the Earl of Ormond. 1811 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Quick-step, a species of march generally written in two crotchets in a bar. 1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 384/1 The drum..beats a..quickstep. 1897 H. Porter Campaigning with Grant in Cent. Mag. Apr. 826 Bands were playing stirring quicksteps. 1999 Sunday Telegram (Mass.) (Nexis) 18 July b1 A typical program includes a blend of quicksteps (or marches), polkas,..and many of the overtures and medleys popular in the mid-19th century. 3. A quick or rapid dance, originally a kind of reel, now typically a fast foxtrot in 4/4 time; (also) the music or tune used to accompany such a dance. Cf. quick time n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others quickstep1793 turkey-trot1839 racket1880 Military Schottische1882 veleta1900 military two-step1911 one-step1911 spot dance1911 Paul Jones1914 foxtrot1915 foxtrotting1916 Maxina1917 Boston two-step1918 slow foxtrot1918 twinkle1920 camel-walk1921 Charleston1923 slop1962 1793 R. Mackintosh (title) Sixty eight New Reels, Strathspeys and Quicksteps. Also some slow Pieces. 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. I. 564 The dancers move forward in a regular quick-step to the tune, in the order of procession. 1893 Harper's Mag. Jan. 210/2 He led off with his companion in a sort of quickstep. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 16 Sept. 2/1 They play reels and strathspeys and rousing quicksteps, and then, halting and forming a circle, they finish with a lament. 1927 V. Silvester Mod. Ballroom Dancing 25 For Charleston, Quickstep, and Tango the right hand should be held further round. 1937 E. Porter Music through Dance viii. 142 The dances of the post-war period were still the Quickstep, and the Foxtrot in its quick and slow variations. 1976 Times 11 June 14/6 The bandleader..changed the tempo to what the programme said was a foxtrot but which..was more of a quickstep. 1999 New Yorker 23 Aug. 135/3 Couples doing the quickstep in a crowded, old-fashioned ballroom. B. adv. At a quick pace; quickly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adverb] > quickly soonc825 quicklyc1300 rifelya1375 swiftlya1400 hourly1529 apace1535 in less than a lightning1591 quick time1816 succinctly1837 quickstep1855 1855 H. Melville Israel Potter iii. 24 Israel swung his knapsack, shouldered his musket, and..was on the march, quickstep, towards Boston. 1864 Sunset Stories No. 1 10 Stir round, can't you, Jem? take your fingers out of your mouth, and get some kindlins, quick step. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 51 We now move, quick-step, over the pasture-fields. 1961 S. Stuckey in J. Chametzky & S. Kaplan Black & White in Amer. Culture (1969) 164 Nor is it true..that Sumner expected the convention to march quickstep to Zion. 1995 Seattle Times (Nexis) 8 May a1 Not waiting for orders, we hustled into formation and began marching quickstep, led by a guard on a bicycle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quickstepv. 1. a. intransitive. To step quickly, esp. to perform a quick step or quick march. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1827 N. Amer. June 51/2 And lo! the golden age will come, Quick stepping on the age of rum. 1898 N. A. Sherman Anglo-Saxon in S. A. Witherbee Spanish-Amer. War Songs 800 Ye will quickstep to changes beyond Boney's wildest dreams, To the music of the Anglo-Saxon race. 1910 Evening Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 19 May 3/3 These honorary guards..quickstepped to the portals of Dorchester House. 1941 S. F. Horn Army of Tennessee xii. 214 A Confederate brigade under General Gregg quick-stepped into town. 1961 Time 28 Apr. 22/2 The G.O.P. majority quick-stepped behind his program. 1992 New Republic 25 May 23/2 Bradley bent down and quick-stepped, in a Groucho Marx-like crouch, toward his limo. 2000 W. Marvel Place called Appomattox viii. 233 Field's division quickstepped from the tag-end of the line of march, reaching the main body by midmorning. b. transitive (usually with it). To step or march (a distance, oneself) in quick time. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > regular and uniform > with quick step quickstep?1867 to throw one's feet1897 ?1867 T. Williams Cure for Fidgets (Lacy's Acting Ed. Vol. 77) 7 I'll just get my togs, and then quick-step it back to barracks. 1874 Decatur (Illinois) Republican 7 May In our company were lawyers—celebrated lawyers, whose hearts were bent on quick-stepping it to the Eden House. 1906 Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 4/4 They quick-step it up and down the asphalted front at Hythe. 1975 New Yorker 17 Feb. 101/1 Lightning Mandate, who won a division of the recent Malibu, was right behind him, and these two probably quickstepped themselves out of the money. 2005 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Mag.) 14 Since the marriage..the father of two has quickstepped it only as far as the local strip club. 2. intransitive. To dance the quickstep. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > dance ballroom dance [verb (intransitive)] > others one-step1913 foxtrot1919 twinkle1920 Charleston1927 quickstep1928 1928 A. P. Graves Celtic Song Bk. 21 The class of Irish music which to this day is to be heard upon the harp and violin, setting us all dancing or quick-stepping. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 32 For no silver posh plane was their pigeon, no dandy dancer quick-stepping through heaven. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World xviii. 314 Still they waltzed and fox-trotted, they quickstepped, and they tangoed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adv.1766v.1827 |
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