- a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- a rigidly inflexible pattern or process.
- rigidly inflexible: a lockstep educational curriculum.
- a method of marching in step such that the men follow one another as closely as possible
- a standard procedure that is closely, often mindlessly, followed
- progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
