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steps foot

steps foot is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is steps foot the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Steps foot is the third-person singular simple present indicative of step foot.

Words near steps foot in the dictionary

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

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