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step·per

(stĕp′ər)

1. One that steps, especially in a fast or spirited manner.

2. Informal A dancer.

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stepper

(ˈstɛpə)

a person or animal that steps, esp a horse or a dancer

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step•per

(ˈstɛp ər)

n.

a person or animal that steps.

[1825–35]

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Noun	1.	stepper - a professional dancer hoofer dancer, professional dancer, terpsichorean - a performer who dances professionally
	2.	stepper - a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps stepping motor motor - machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion
	3.	stepper - a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting high stepper Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

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Give us two weeks more, Miss Carr--only two weeks to wash up our work and realize--and we'll give you a pair of 2.40 steppers and a skeleton buggy to meet you at the top of the hill and drive you over to the cabin.

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Back in the hills, there, he's got a ranch of five hundred an' eighty acres, bought it dirt cheap, too; an' I want to tell you I could travel around in a different tourin' car every day in the week just outa the profits he makes on that ranch from the horses all the way from heavy draughts to fancy steppers.

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"Of course there's no one to tell us whose fault that was," said Jerry, "and as long as I don't know I shall give him the benefit of the doubt; for a firmer, neater stepper I never rode.

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Down the cobblestones of the quiet street came the ring of a stepper's hoofs; they stopped before the house, and he caught the opening of a carriage door.

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Its figures showed there were 12% more first-time buyers in the market in the first half of this year than a year earlier, meaning some second steppers might have found it easier to sell their starter home, with more potential buyers in the market.

Home mover numbers up

Lloyds found second steppers needed to find 6.5 times their earnings stepper homes" has improved in recent years, as the rising value of a starter home has given home owners bigger deposits to use as a springboard for their next property.

Number of home movers in first six months of year reaches eight-year high

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Many so-called second steppers are being forced to consider a loan from their parents to move up the property ladder, the Bank of Scotland said.

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Some 61 per cent of "second steppers", many of whom bought their first home at the peak of the market, said they have wanted to move in the last year but have found themselves trapped.

Second-steppers 'stuck on their rung of ladder'

Some 61 per cent of "second steppers" said they have wanted to move in the past year but have found themselves trapped.