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foxtrots

foxtrots is the plural of foxtrot.

foxtrots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foxtrot.

Meaning of foxtrot

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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Phrases with foxtrots

Questions about foxtrots

What is foxtrots the plural of?
Foxtrots is the plural of foxtrot.

Words near foxtrots in the dictionary

  1. foxtrot delta tango
  2. foxtrot oscar
  3. foxtrot oscared
  4. foxtrot oscaring
  5. foxtrot oscars
  6. foxtrots
  7. foxtrotted
  8. foxtrotter
  9. foxtrotters
  10. foxtrotting
  11. Foxwell

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