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- noun soccer A skill move performed by an attacking player in which the foot is moved over the ball without making contact with it, intended to confuse a
defender .
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Examples
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Lynn Schrage, marketing manager of the Kohler Store in Chicago, returned my call and explained that many bathtubs are built to accommodate a "stepover" into the shower.
Shallow Bathtub Is Deep Disappointment Julia Angwin 2010
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By now it should be clear that even the most rousing display of "passion" – the sleeve rolling, the finger wagging – is as much about showboating as any prancing triple stepover.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay 2011
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Stuart Pearce epitomises the 'passion' that Arsenal are supposed to lack but even the most rousing display of passion is as much about showboating as any prancing triple stepover.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay 2011
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Following my lifelong policy of always being gracious to 19-year-old, thong-wearing daughters of old friends, I said, "I remember your mother," as memories of 1977 began dancing in my head like a Pelé stepover.
MondoWeiss 2006
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Fidel Castro spoke with Felipe Gonzalez for more than 2 hours in a room at the airport in Havana where the Socialist leader made a stepover on his way to
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Fabulous play on the edge of the Benfica area, hoodwinking Luisao with a delicious stepover and trying to slide the ball in between Artur's legs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Giant's Rainier features a lower stepover height and a components spec that caters to the female rider such as a skinnier handlebar.
Industry News 2010
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