fox-trot

Noun

foxtrot (plural foxtrots)

1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
   • 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.1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200
2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.

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