moxie

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She gets off because Roxie's got moxie, and she's cute and the nearly all-male jury loves her.

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  1. noun Slang The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage.
  2. noun Slang Aggressive energy; initiative: "His prose has moxie, though it rushes and stumbles from a pent-up surge” (Patricia Hampl).
  3. noun Slang Skill; know-how.

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  • "He had moxie," he said, and imitated a horse, galloping from the living room where I stood entranced, laughing, into the dining room just as Dandy Boy had galloped into the world. —  Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
  • She gets off because Roxie's got moxie, and she's cute and the nearly all-male jury loves her. —  Girls & Guns
  • DOBBS: That moxie, are we going to see it on the issue of, for example, trade, outsourcing American jobs to cheaper overseas labor markets, for example? —  CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2004
  • This bum's a foxie with no moxie, see? —  The Moment Of The Magician
  • Impressed with such moxie, I'd agreed to help. —  Break No Bones
 

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Etymologies (1)

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  1. From Moxie, trademark for a soft drink.
 

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