quick-step

quick-step n.

1802, from quick (adj.) + step (n.). From 1906 as a verb. Related: quick-stepped; quick-stepping.

Examples from the Web for quick-step Historical Examples of quick-step

The transition from the “Dead March” to the quick-step was quite too sudden.

Harry M. Kieffer

A quick-step, taken from the start, gave the party a gentle jolting, just sufficiently softened by the padded carriage upholstery.

W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy

Allegretto energicamente, two-four, a merry, quick-step movement of two eight-bar periods.

Stephen Samuel Stratton

The French, reinforced by the whole Sixth Corps, now came forward at a quick-step.

Charles Lever

All my previous ideas of men marching to war have had a touch of heroism, crudely expressed by quick-step and smart uniforms.

Sarah Macnaughtan