Usually means: Lifting knees high while marching.
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  1. high-step: Merriam-Webster
  2. high-step: Wiktionary
  3. high-step: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. high-step: Dictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high-step: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (high-step)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To raise the knees so as to approach or step over.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To raise the knees higher than normal.

Similar:
step, step over, stride, stair-step, understep, overstep, kick-step, bestep, step out, tread, more...

Opposite:
low-step, shuffle, saunter, amble

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Similar:
step, step over, stride, stair-step, understep, overstep, kick-step, bestep, step out, tread, more...

Opposite:
low-step, shuffle, saunter, amble



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