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Meaning fox meaning

What does fox mean?
Definitions in simple English

fox Noun

— A small wild animal that is like a dog. — A pretty woman. — A smart person who can trick other people.

fox Verb

— If you fox someone, you trick them; you fool them. — If something foxes you, it confuses or baffles you. This Sudoku puzzle foxes me.

fox

— noun alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs — noun (= dodger) a shifty deceptive person — noun the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox — verb become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots — verb (= confuse, throw, befuddle) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly These questions confuse even the experts This question completely threw me This question befuddled even the teacher — verb (= trick) deceive somebody We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week

Fox

— noun a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River — noun English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) — noun English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691) — noun the Algonquian language of the Fox

Synonyms fox synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fox?

Fox English » English

George Fox Charles James Fox Vulpecula

fox English » English

wildcat red fox jackal confuse vixen trick slyboots fuddle fob dodger wild dog wild cat throw raccoon pull a fast one on play tricks play a trick on play a joke on panther outwit leopard flummox flim-flam discombobulate confound befuddle bedevil baffle yobbo yellow wild animal weasel villain upset tussle toss tod throw together tell fortunes tangle stump stir up stir sophisticate soak snooker snarl silver fox screw scramble

Topics fox topics

What do people use fox to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals Mammal

Carnivore
Person Life Male, female

Man

Conjugation fox conjugation

How do you conjugate fox?

fox · verb

Examples fox examples

How do I use fox in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A fox is a wild animal.
That fox must have killed the hen.
The hounds are in pursuit of the fox.
The quick brown fox may as well go fuck the lazy dog.
I saw a wolf, a fox and a rabbit.
Tom found an abandoned young fox and adopted it.
Tom found abandoned fox cubs in the forest.
A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.
Bob wanted to keep the fox at home.
The old man freed the little fox from the trap.
The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.
The ears of a rabbit are longer than those of a fox.
That politician is an old fox.
The dog is after the fox.
The dog ran after a fox.
A fox came along.
We set a trap to catch a fox.
I saw a fox run across the road just now.
The fox hid in the hollow tree.
A fox was caught in the snare.
It is said that the fox is more cunning than any other animal.

Movie subtitles

Boreanaz is a straight-up fox.
Yeah, Mike. Unofficially speaking, the fox has broken cover.
We're invited there for dinner next Friday night. and I'm going to wear my new silver with the white fox.
There's a fox in the cover somewhere.
We aren't handling a fox, we're handling a man.
You're quite the sly fox.
You should've seen him slice up some fox stoles with a razor!
I don't go slicing up fox stoles.
No, my little fox.
The rabbit skips into a ravine, but the fox follows him.
The rabbit runs into the woods, but the fox stays on his tail.
So the rabbit jumps between two birch trees. The fox comes after him and gets stuck!
You old fox, you.
Big-game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania.
Where's that sly fox?
The Patriarch, the Fellow-Countryman, Zoya bulldog, the Fox the Taylor, the Shepherd, the Owl, the Fly-by-night.
Give back my fox!
He was born Richmond Reed Carradine, but his name was changed to John Carradine when he went under contract to Twentieth Century Fox in 1935.
Still, they obtain furs, valuable buffalo hides, otter, fox and beaver.
And how do you like the fox, Captain Finsbury?
When Charlie Fox and Sheridan would be there with him in the Pavilion at Brighton.
Why, you sly little fox, you. This settles a question that's been on my mind from the beginning.
We seem to have a little contretemps, fox pass or what have you, ladies and gentlemen.
Here is Zorro the fox, safely trapped.
Fox, at the foresail!
That's a new silver fox!
Yeah, dumb like a fox.
But I'm just thinking. Perhaps that old fox Underwood might be giving me too much rope.
Jane doesn't have any silver fox.
What will a fox do before attacking a chicken?
Blue fox.
You fox-trot. Look, Miss Spencer, I've done my level best to show you a good time.
My fox has a lead!
In this case you have no sympathy for the fox?

News and current affairs

For example, star-struck female film fans may be especially prone to believe any utterance from Hollywood's most famous silver fox.
President George W. Bush has been skirting the question ever since he committed himself to an immigration agreement with Mexico when he visited President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato almost exactly five years ago.
Fox has said that he is willing to break with old Mexican taboos, but the Bush administration has never taken him up on it.
That is unfortunate, because Fox will not be around forever.
Mexico's President Vincente Fox will govern through 2006.
Fox's term, along with the four last years of former President Ernesto Zedillo's mandate, were hardly a failure.
Likewise, while Fox can be criticized for not clamping down on protesters and a disruptive, extremist opposition, he never resorted to the bloody repression for which most of his predecessors came to be known.
Four days later, Mexico highest electoral court ruled that Fox had improperly interfered in the election but unanimously reaffirmed Calderon's victory.
Now comes the hard part. Incoming President Vicente Fox will soon discover that you make a first impression only once.
Unless he stakes out a set of clear policies before he comes to the bargaining table, Mr Fox will find his powers and his mandate eroded in no time.
That is the new game President-elect Fox must play, just as he must be more skilled at domestic politics than the PRI ever was, because of the democratic divisions in Mexico's congress.
These are two good reasons for Mr Fox to stake out a powerful position on the currency front that does away with uncertainties and offers a genuine free lunch in the form of a collapse of interest rates and the cost of capital.
A currency board is no panacea but it is a powerful tool that can provide the new Fox government with a chance to make a quantum improvement in Mexico's economic outlook.
Against that background, President-elect Fox will have a stronger opportunity to evict government from its stranglehold on many areas of the economy, thus reducing both poor performance and corruption.
Then former President Vicente Fox ordered a crackdown.
Incoming President Vicente Fox will soon discover that you make a first impression only once.
Moreover, though Mexico elected its first president, Vicente Fox, from an opposition party after 71 years of one-party rule, this new democratic government appears ineffective.
CAMBRIDGE: With Vincente Fox assuming Mexico's Presidency on December 1, Mexico celebrates much more than a simple leadership transition.
Yet when Fox defeated the PRI candidate this summer, Mexicans were treated to a peaceful transition of power based on an honest count at the ballot box.
He carries with him into office the goodwill of most of the country, impressed by Fox's sincerity, intelligence, and eagerness to lead Mexico in an open and professional manner.
Fox lived up to this promise with his choice of cabinet ministers.
With a democratic transition and an economy primed for growth on the basis of inward investments into Mexico and an export boom to the US, President Fox assumes power at a time of great promise.
The Fox Administration will benefit from a basically sound framework for Mexican economic growth, in which Mexico's economic prosperity will emerge in part from increasing economic integration with Canada and the US.
With the arrival of the Fox Administration, Mexico's chances for democracy and prosperity are the best they've been at any time in Mexico's modern history.
It is understandable that he wishes to distinguish himself from his predecessor, Vicente Fox, who was unable to get meaningful reforms through Congress.
Opposition groups here applaud President Vincente Fox's recent anti-American stance in the UN Security Council, while Mexican businessmen oppose it.
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