fox-trot

fox′ trot`

n.

1. a ballroom dance in duple meter characterized by various combinations of slow and quick steps.

2. a pace, as of a horse, consisting of a series of short steps.

[1870–75, Amer.]

fox′-trot`

v.i. -trot•ted, -trot•ting.

to dance a fox trot.

[1915–20]

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fox-trot

A twentieth-century American ballroom dance that consists of easy walking steps to syncopated rhythms.

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fox-trot - a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences foxtrot ballroom dance, ballroom dancing - any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom

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