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say it: FAHK-straht
foxtrot is a noun and verb meaning "a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences". It is pronounced /ˈfɑkstɹɑt/ — FAHK-straht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
dance the foxtrot
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foxtrot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.