Other forms: quicksteps
A quickstep is a brisk light-footed ballroom dance. Dance the quickstep, a fast quickstep, the quickstep is next.
It grew out of the foxtrot in the 1920s when bands played faster than dancers could manage the slow steps, so the dance was speeded up and the hops and skips came in. It is the fastest of the standard ballroom dances. Note that the compound is quick plus step and was a military march step first.
1nounquickstepA brisk light-footed ballroom dance.
“The couple glided across the floor in a lively quickstep.”
quickstep is a dance.
Quick plus step. The word named a fast military march step before it named the dance.
From quick + step.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA