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Foxtrot   /fˈɑkstrɑt/   Listen
Foxtrot

noun
1.
A ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.  Synonym: fox-trot.
verb
1.
Dance the foxtrot.






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"Foxtrot" Quotes from Famous Books



... this particular night little Billy Bunny was doing the fox trot with a nice little lady bunny, when all of a sudden from out of the Friendly Forest came Slyboots and Bushy Tail, the small sons of ...
— Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog • David Magie Cory

... her rump, helmet tilted over an eye, hair down, comely and unmilitary legs thrust out, showing her drawers and laughing. Yes, the Germans were laughing. Where was there gayety like the Palais de Danse, the Fox Trot Klubs, Pauligs; gayety like the drunken soldiers patrolling Wilhelmstrasse where a paunchy harness-maker sat in ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht

... disconcerted. He prided himself on his aplomb. It was hard to get behind his cynical, decorous smile, the mask of a suave and worldly-wise Pharisee of the twentieth century. But for once he was amazed. The orchestra was playing a lively fox trot and he thought that perhaps he had not ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... Society organ, "has succumbed to the Jazz, the Fox-trot and the Bunny-hug." It still shows a decided ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 12, 1919 • Various



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