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fox trot
1noun
- a social dance, in quadruple meter, performed by couples, characterized by various combinations of slow and quick steps.
- a pace, as of a horse, consisting of a series of short steps, as in slackening from a trot to a walk.
fox-trot
2[ foks-trot ]
verb (used without object)
, fox-trot·ted, fox-trot·ting.
- to dance a fox trot.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fox trot1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Origin of fox trot2
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
In the aftermath of Boo-gate, Bristol “The Pistol” Palin came out with guns a-blazing for her fox trot.
From The Daily Beast
"This is something like," sighed Bolivar, falling easily into Columbine's smooth fox-trot.
From Project Gutenberg
One-step, fox-trot and a Lulu Fado followed in smooth succession.
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But the Mexican merely touched his flapping sombrero and rode on at the shuffling fox-trot.
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Bergstrom's two-piece orchestra was in the throes of its jazziest fox-trot number.
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And again we rode softly for miles over greensward through the cattle, at a gentle fox trot, so as not to disturb them.
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