foxtrot
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foxtrot
- Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foxtrot (plural foxtrots)
- 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.
- A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
a ballroom dance
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Verb edit
foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)
- To dance the foxtrot.
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Czech edit
Noun edit
foxtrot m inan
- foxtrot (dance)
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Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English foxtrot.
Noun edit
foxtrot n (plural foxtroturi)
Declension edit
Declension of foxtrot
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) foxtrot | foxtrotul | (niște) foxtroturi | foxtroturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) foxtrot | foxtrotului | (unor) foxtroturi | foxtroturilor |
vocative | foxtrotule | foxtroturilor |
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English foxtrot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foxtrot m inan (genitive singular foxtrotu, nominative plural foxtroty, genitive plural foxtrotov, declension pattern of dub)
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Declension of foxtrot
Further reading edit
- “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
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English foxtrot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)
Further reading edit
- “foxtrot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
- foxtrott (dated)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English foxtrot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foxtrot c
Declension edit
Declension of foxtrot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | foxtrot | foxtroten | foxtroter | foxtroterna |
Genitive | foxtrots | foxtrotens | foxtroters | foxtroternas |