Other forms: foxtrots
The foxtrot is a smooth partner dance of long and short steps. Dance the foxtrot, a slow foxtrot, learn the foxtrot.
The mix of slow and quick steps is what makes it look easy and makes it hard, and it is the foundation most ballroom teaching starts from. Foxtrot is also the letter F in the phonetic alphabet used by pilots and the forces.
1nounfoxtrotA smooth partner dance of long and short steps.
“My grandparents still dance the foxtrot at every family wedding.”
foxtrot is a dance.
Fox plus trot, probably from the short broken steps of a fox rather than from any person of that name.
From fox + trot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA