Ballroom dance that's also a phonetic alphabet "F"

Usage examples of foxtrot.

At fifteen knots, the Foxtrot was too slow to run away from the forty-knot torpedo.

Then they went over to the stretch of track beyond the point designated Foxtrot, and crouched among barren shadbushes whose berries they had eaten earlier in the year, and lobbed rocks down on the tracks to see how the angle of fire was.

The damn things were cowards, even if they did look like some kind of deep-sea horror, and he and his new buddy Foxtrot Xray had scared them off.

Newer Wolves composed the majority of Foxtrot Company, rebuilt after being bled white in action east of Hazlett, Missouri, in the summer of '65.

That gives us twelve Soviet subs in transit north and south, plus a November and three more Foxtrots that have been exercising with the Cuban Navy.

Won’t be dancing too many foxtrots from now on, but who really gives a fuck, eh?

I'd heard toe bones cracking, and she'd limped through two foxtrots, a waltz and the Conga.

Freckles foxtrotted across a face with a turned-up nose and a wide mouth.

Joe and Nancy Mondragon were both so bombed they could hardly stand up, let alone walk, God forbid knock off La Raspa, a foxtrot, or the Monkey, but they had decided to perform a flamenco number to a trio of unabashedly drippy accordions, chunk-a-chunk guitars, gagging fiddles, and' hysterically sobbing south-of-the-border voices, so they cleared the floor by elbowing everybody else aside, and--Nancy gritting an imaginary rose in her teeth, Joe with a fist clenched against his belly holding together an imaginary skintight gypsy jacket --they began to "dance.

And like one domino toppling another, the memory of Foxtrot Sector forced him to recall that last moment with Renka Linavil.

All the men aboard the Foxtrot were already dead, but the rescue buoy told their fleet headquarters where they had died-and several submarines and surface ships immediately set off to that point.