steppers

Noun

stepper (plural steppers)

1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
   • I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.1872, Fanny Fern, Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
2. A dancer.
   • Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."2009, William Dusinberre, Strategies for Survival, page 170
3. (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.
   • Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping.2001, New York Times Staff, The New York Times Dance Reviews 2000, page 372
4. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
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.
   • I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead.2016, Vidyangi, Vertical Living

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