goose step

1. 1.

   a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high

   Broadermarch

1. 1.

   march in a military fashion

   Broadermarch

Questions about goose step

What does goose step mean?

goose step means "a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is goose step a common word?

goose step is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.