"foxtrot" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxtrot.wav [Southern-England] Forms: foxtrots [plural]
Etymology: fox + trot Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fox|trot}} fox + trot Head templates: {{en-noun}} foxtrot (plural foxtrots)
  1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm. Categories (topical): Dances Translations (a ballroom dance): ֆոքստրոտ (fokʿstrot) (Armenian), foxtrot [masculine] (Czech), fokstroto (Esperanto), fokstrotti (Finnish), Foxtrott [masculine] (German), είδος χορού (eídos choroú) (Greek), פוקסטרוט (Hebrew), foxtrott (Hungarian), フォックストロット (fokkusutorotto) (Japanese), fokstrot (Polish), фокстро́т (fokstrót) [masculine] (Russian), foxtrot [masculine] (Slovak), foxtrot (Swedish), fokstrot (Turkish), llwynog (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-foxtrot-en-noun-VmDPE~6E Disambiguation of Dances: 42 9 21 28 Disambiguation of 'a ballroom dance': 91 4 4
  2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
    Sense id: en-foxtrot-en-noun-~Hv2oQ2B
  3. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet
    Sense id: en-foxtrot-en-noun-vXqwvyvt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 35 49 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 22 63 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foxtrot oscar, whiskey tango foxtrot, whisky tango foxtrot

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxtrot.wav [Southern-England] Forms: foxtrots [present, singular, third-person], foxtrotting [participle, present], foxtrotted [participle, past], foxtrotted [past]
Etymology: fox + trot Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fox|trot}} fox + trot Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)
  1. To dance the foxtrot. Related terms: turkey trot
    Sense id: en-foxtrot-en-verb-rVp1bZU1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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