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Definition: Quickstep |
QuickstepNoun1. Military march accompanying quick time. 2. A ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps. Verb1. Perform a quickstep. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quickstep" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Crosswords: Quickstep |
| Non-English Usage: "Quickstep" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (quickstep), Italian (quickstep). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Honeymoon Quickstep (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Quickstep. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Quickstep and Gloriana, August 6, 1892. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Quickstep" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Quickstep" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quickstep | 36 |
quickstep flooring | 16 |
quickstep laminate | 5 |
quickstep laminate flooring | 5 |
quickstep uniclic | 5 |
quickstep floor | 3 |
plank quickstep uniclic | 3 |
quickstep siemens | 3 |
dance quickstep | 3 |
boat quickstep sail | 2 |
apple green quickstep | 2 |
quickstep laminate floor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quickstep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خطوة سريعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fox-trot, fox. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schnellschritt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βήμα ταχύ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyorsított menet (quick march, quick time), gyorsított lépés (quick time), gyors ütemű tánc, gyors ütemű foxtrott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | quickstep. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | biocheim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickstepquay passo acelerado. (various references) марш (hike). (various references) brzi korak. (various references) paso ligero (pit-a-pat). (various references) hareketli dans, hızlı yürüme, hızlı adım. (various references) швидкий танок, швидкий крок. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quickstep": quicksteps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-p-q-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: picquets, quickest, quickset. | |
-2 letters: pickets, picquet, piquets, skeptic, stickup, upticks. | |
-3 letters: cuties, equips, picket, piques, piquet, quicks, quiets, septic, tupiks, uptick. | |
-4 letters: cesti, cites, cukes, cutes, cutie, cutis, epics, equip, etuis, ictus, kepis, kites, pecks, picks, pikes, pique, piste, puces, pucks, pukes, quest, quick, quiet, quips, quite, quits, scute, sepic, setup, situp, skite, speck. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-p-q-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quicksteps. | |
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