Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pace, as of a horse, consisting of a series of short steps, usually adopted in breaking from a walk into a trot, or in slackening from a trot to a walk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk.
- n. a ballroom dance for couples in quadruple time, combining short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences.
- v. To dance the foxtrot.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
- v. dance the foxtrot
- n. a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
Examples
“The most influential of the new dances, which scholars cite as the sources of both swing dance and the gyrations at early rock-and-roll dances, were the turkey trot, the fox-trot, the Charleston, and the Texas Tommy.”
“(Meanwhile, Mike "the Situation" lives on at Dancing With the Stars and even got the encore spot on the results show, giving me another chance to fast-forward through his freaky and Frankenstein-ian futuristic fox-trot.)”
“An old-fashioned band played music from decades past, and young couples did the fox-trot or the waltz or other dances that had long gone out of style.”
“We did the fox-trot to “This Will Be An Everlasting Love,” and we scored twenty-one points out of thirty overall.”
“After a very quick fox-trot that left her breathless and laughing, Jake went to get them both a root beer.”
“And when it comes to the Lindy or the fox-trot ...”
“To perform magic in this bewitched world … I changed wigs, sang, danced the polka and the fox-trot.”
“You can have enough Robert Frost in your head to riff on his line and think "good dancers make good neighbors" and still enjoy the fox-trot.”
“The camp offers five levels of dance instruction, from beginner to advanced, in categories such as the fox-trot, waltz, tango, rumba, cha-cha and swing.”
“He twirled me around the floor and I tried to keep up with his flawless fox-trot as best I could.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fox-trot’.
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MUSIC - dance styles
A list generated by Phrontistery
http://phrontistery.info/dance.html
which I wanted to have along with my own lists on Wordnikallemande, beguine, bergamask, bolero, bossa-nova, boston, bourrée, bransle, buck-and-wing, cabriole, cakewalk, canary and 93 more...
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Hyphen-hyphen
A list of interesting words incorporating a hyphen
cat's-paw, sea-mew, kiss-me-quick, kiss-ass, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, hush-hush, hugger-mugger, fox-trot, super-duper, fuddy-duddy, boogie-woogie and 33 more...
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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fitzgeraldean
snobbishly, riotous, impressionability, gestures, hope, gorgeous, dreams, elations, lawns, egg, mansion, supercilious and 60 more...
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