Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In car-building, a step or a short flight of steps inclosed at the sides by a stringer or guard; a platform-step in a passenger-car.
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Examples
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My sisters and I called the box-step “the disaster dance.”
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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My sisters and I called the box-step “the disaster dance.”
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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Kevin eyed me from across the room, doing the box-step with my mother.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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Kevin eyed me from across the room, doing the box-step with my mother.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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So in our living room, two hours before the big dance, Tony Bennett was in the background leaving his heart in San Francisco, and my husband and I were doing our best to two-step, three-step, box-step—anything that looked remotely close to dancing.
Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010
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So in our living room, two hours before the big dance, Tony Bennett was in the background leaving his heart in San Francisco, and my husband and I were doing our best to two-step, three-step, box-step—anything that looked remotely close to dancing.
Muffins and Mayhem Suzanne Beecher 2010
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They dance to their own drummer, and when they do, they don't do the box-step, they boogie!
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Hands still in his pockets, he did a graceful little box-step, then gave Gemma a sideways glance.
Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995
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