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noun
A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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History
Coined for the construction of such stairways on university campuses in response to student unrest during the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to prevent mobs of students from running together.
