stepper

1. (more specifically) A dancer in a step show.Examples: "Before he entered high school, he was a "stepper,” a practitioner of a local Philadelphia dance form derived from tapping."; "Just as the early circular routines of fraternity and sorority steppers suggest the influence of patting juba, so too may they reflect another early African American dance form, the “ring shout.”"; "Although research on this subject is somewhat inconclusive, there are several instances in which the African origins of the canes used by steppers, dancers, and Brazilian practitioners of the martial art form Maculele (which is also a dance) are documented."

2. (colloquial, especially in the plural) A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing.Examples: ""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 with my megaphone, and step—I would STEP!" She hops to her feet and does a step or two."; "“[…] what are you wearing tonight?” “Well, I went to the mall and found the most amazing boots ever!” “Oh God, you and these boots. Ariel, you could open up a shoe store as many shoes as you have.” “Shut up and look at my new steppers.”"colloquialespeciallyin-plural

3. (UK, obsolete, slang, historical) A prison treadmill.Examples: "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, […]"UKhistoricalobsoleteslang