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foxtrot

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See also: Foxtrot and fox-trot

Translingual

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Noun

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foxtrot

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

English

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Etymology

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From fox +‎ trot.

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Noun

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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.

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Verb

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

  1. To dance the foxtrot.

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Czech

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Noun

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foxtrot m inan

  1. foxtrot (dance)

Declension

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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English foxtrot.

Noun

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foxtrot n (plural foxtroturi)

  1. foxtrot

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative foxtrot foxtrotul foxtroturi foxtroturile
genitive-dative foxtrot foxtrotului foxtroturi foxtroturilor
vocative foxtrotule foxtroturilor

Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English foxtrot.

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Noun

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

  1. (dance) foxtrot
    Synonym: fox

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Further reading

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  • 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, 2003–2024

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)

  1. (dance) foxtrot

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Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English foxtrot.

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Noun

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foxtrot c

  1. (dance) foxtrot

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