fox
IPA: fˈɑks
noun
- A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
- The fur of a fox.
- A fox terrier.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (slang, figurative) A cunning person.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
- (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.
- A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
- A male given name
- (US, broadcasting, uncountable) Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network from the USA.
- A placename
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stone County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
- An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Fox Township.
- A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia.
- (soccer) Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- Ellipsis of Fox Tribe.
- Ellipsis of Fox language.
- (dated) Ellipsis of Fox Indian.: A member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people.
verb
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
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Examples of "fox" in Sentences
- The crow moved closer to the fox.
- The fox was very hungry and weak.
- He possesses the totem of the Fox.
- The fox and the hawk come to mind.
- Maybe the fox is telling the truth.
- The monkeys were not afraid of the fox.
- Keane animated the climactic bear showdown in The Fox and the Hound.
- She finds the fox again and tries to get the animal accustomed to her.
- He is free to go and join fox oops fix news or the tea party movement.
- One of the notable animals that inhabit the island is the fox squirrel.
- The reopening of the Fox embodied a whole new dimension of the Fox Theater.
- The peasants of that country have a small dog, which, from their foxy appearance, they term fox-dogs.
- "It's what we call a fox-tail skimmer and it's connected to a roller and a squeegee system," he says.
- The black fox is in fact a red fox which is going through a phase where the colour of its fur is particularly dark.
- When he had prepared twenty or more of those pieces of poisoned tallow, he put them in what he called a fox bed, of oat chaff, behind that old barn.
- We did not answer, because now, for the first time, it came over all of us, in a rush of blushes and uncomfortableness, that burying a fox is a suspicious act.
- July 31st, 2006 at 1: 30 pm matthew says: at least a fox is an appropriate annalogy (not REAL foxes mind you, real foxes are cool, I mean the steriotypical-anthropomorphized-media version of the fox)
- Yet I heard only the other day of a woman who boasted that she had been among the few "in at the death" one day in fox - hunting, and that when the brush was given to her, her face was _spattered with the blood of the fox_.