"step-in" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From step + in.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "step-ins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "step-in (plural step-ins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Underwear",
          "orig": "en:Underwear",
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            "Clothing",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 46:",
          "text": "‘Doc got that step-in in Memphis,’ the third said. ‘Off a damn whore.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book V (The Way Home: 1929–1930), page 315:",
          "text": "One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming \"Ben! Ben!\" she waved it wildly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties."
      ],
      "id": "en-step-in-en-noun-tEJ9UT5C",
      "links": [
        [
          "step",
          "step"
        ],
        [
          "panties",
          "panties"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also in plural) An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step-in"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From step + in.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "step-ins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "step-in (plural step-ins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "en:Underwear"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 46:",
          "text": "‘Doc got that step-in in Memphis,’ the third said. ‘Off a damn whore.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book V (The Way Home: 1929–1930), page 315:",
          "text": "One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming \"Ben! Ben!\" she waved it wildly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties."
      ],
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        ],
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          "panties",
          "panties"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(also in plural) An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step-in"
}