foxtrot

foxtrot

1. Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

fox +‎ trot

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/

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foxtrot (plural foxtrots)

1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
   • 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:

     The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.

2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
3. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)

1. To dance the foxtrot.

• turkey trot

foxtrot m inan

1. foxtrot (dance)

• foxtrot in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• foxtrot in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Unadapted borrowing from English foxtrot.

foxtrot n (plural foxtroturi)

1. foxtrot

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔkstrɔt/

foxtrot m inan (genitive singular foxtrotu, nominative plural foxtroty, genitive plural foxtrotov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (dance) foxtrot

   Synonym: fox

• “foxtrot”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

• IPA^(key): /foɡsˈtɾot/ [foɣ̞sˈt̪ɾot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: fox‧trot

foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)

1. (dance) foxtrot

• “foxtrot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• foxtrott (dated)

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔkstrɔt/

foxtrot c

1. (dance) foxtrot

• foxtrot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• foxtrott in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)