- lockstep⇄adj. rigid; unbending.
Ex. Mrs. Handy's lockstep methods (copy the great novelists, read the ""Masters of the Far East,"" stay away from girls) produced a handful of published novels (New Yorker). - lockstep⇄lockstep, noun, adjective.
- lockstep⇄noun 1. a way of marching in step very close together, with the legs of each person nearly touching those of the person in front and back.
2. (Figurative.) a rigid pattern or arrangement.
Ex. When Manning came to Stanford in 1964, he was det