fox‐trotの英語

名詞

fox-trot (countable and uncountable, plural fox-trots)

1. Alternative form of foxtrot.

Further reading

• “fox-trot”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From fox +‎ trot.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/

名詞

foxtrot (plural foxtrots)

1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
   • 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:

     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.

2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
3. (international standards) alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

派生語

動詞

foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)

1. To dance the foxtrot.

参考

• turkey trot