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a dance that walks like jazz and struts like a tuxedo with somewhere to be
means A smooth ballroom dance in 4/4 time built on long, gliding steps and quick ones, danced to swing or big-band music — also the letter 'F' in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
from From English 'fox' + 'trot,' the latter being the bouncy, quick gait of a trotting horse — a 'fox-trot' originally described a short, broken trot in horses, related to the verb 'trot' (which came through Old French 'troter' from a Germanic root). The dance emerged in early 20th-century America; the popular story credits the vaudeville performer Harry Fox, whose trotting steps supposedly named it, but that link is debated and the equine sense was already in use, so the truth is murkier than the legend. The military 'Foxtrot' for 'F' simply borrows the familiar word to keep radio voices clear.
- smooth lie
- Named for vaudevillian Harry Fox, not the animal
- speed split
- Has both slow and quick versions to confuse you
- jazz born
- Emerged with ragtime around 1914
- radio alias
- Stands for the letter F in the NATO alphabet
foxtrot dance — ballroom dance created in 1914 by harry fox, featuring a combination of walking and running steps
nato phonetic foxtrot — the letter f in the nato phonetic alphabet, used in military and aviation communications worldwide
operation desert fox — 1998 military campaign by us and uk against iraq, authorized by operation fox codename