foxtrot

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See also: Foxtrot and fox-trot

Translingual

Noun

foxtrot

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

English

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Etymology

fox +‎ trot

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. To dance the foxtrot.

See also

Czech

Noun

foxtrot m inan

  1. foxtrot (dance)

Declension

Declension of foxtrot (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative foxtrot foxtroty
genitive foxtrotu foxtrotů
dative foxtrotu foxtrotům
accusative foxtrot foxtroty
vocative foxtrote foxtroty
locative foxtrotu foxtrotech
instrumental foxtrotem foxtroty

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English foxtrot.

Noun

foxtrot n (plural foxtroturi)

  1. foxtrot

Declension

Declension of foxtrot
singular plural
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

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. (dance) foxtrot
    Synonym: fox

Declension

Declension of foxtrot
singular plural
nominative foxtrot foxtroty
genitive foxtrotu foxtrotov
dative foxtrotu foxtrotom
accusative foxtrot foxtroty
locative foxtrote foxtrotoch
instrumental foxtrotom foxtrotmi

Further reading

  • “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

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)

  1. (dance) foxtrot

Further reading

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

Noun

foxtrot c

  1. (dance) foxtrot

Declension

Declension of foxtrot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative foxtrot foxtroten foxtroter foxtroterna
Genitive foxtrots foxtrotens foxtroters foxtroternas

References

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