stepper

noun steppers

1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high. I marvel that these steppers upon flowers childishly make no provision for the pitfalls concealed beneath them.
2. A dancer. Although Martha Haskins never won a prize at a dance, she was proud of having been “a purty good stepper."
3. A dancer in a step show. Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping.
4. A kind of electric motor that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
5. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
6. A type of exercise machine. I am working out on the stepper, but I feel like dancing instead.
7. Anything that moves or advances in steps. The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers.
8. colloquial, especially, in plural A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing. "And I would dress smack daddy down." Tawanda throws her head back, laughing. "The other girls was all lacy-like, with high heels; I had steppers, low heels like men's spectator shoes, and pointy toes. I got the foot for it and I got the height; I would put on the suit, the pantsuit, go out there wi
9. UK, historical, obsolete, slang A prison treadmill. On the treadmill we were shut up in little boxes, almost pitch dark, and the handrail to catch hold of when treading the mill was so high […] I refused point blank, one morning, to go on the stepper on plea of illness, […]
10. slang A foot (appendage of the leg).
11. slang The feet of anthropomorphic animals, especially paws.
12. A kind of driving rhythm or drumbeat in reggae music.