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stepped foot

stepped foot is the simple past and past participle of step foot.

Meaning of step foot

Verb

step foot (third-person singular simple present steps foot, present participle stepping foot, simple past and past participle stepped foot)

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of set foot.
    • This was a pleasure of no small kind; and in stepping foot again upon the soil of that country, which contains much that I prize, and more that I admire1813, Washington Irving, “Sketches of an Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin”, in The Analectic magazine, page 480

Questions about stepped foot

What is stepped foot the simple past and past participle of?
Stepped foot is the simple past and past participle of step foot.

Words near stepped foot in the dictionary

  1. stepped aside
  2. stepped back
  3. stepped between
  4. stepped cycle track
  5. stepped down
  6. stepped foot
  7. stepped forward
  8. stepped in
  9. stepped into
  10. stepped into someone's shoes
  11. stepped into the breach

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