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foxtrot

[foks-trot]

fox-trot

[foks-trot]
verb (used without object), -trot·ted, -trot·ting.
to dance a fox trot.

Origin:
1915–20

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Foxtrot is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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Fox·trot

[foks-trot]
noun
a word used in communications to represent the letter F.
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foxtrot (ˈfɒksˌtrɒt)
 
n
1.  a ballroom dance in quadruple time, combining short and long steps in various sequences
 
vb , -trots, -trotting, -trotted
2.  (intr) to perform this dance

Foxtrot (ˈfɒksˌtrɒt)
 
n
communications a code word for the letter f

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