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fox   (TTS Sound)

The noun fox has 7 senses

• fox -- (alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs)


• dodger, fox, slyboots -- (a shifty deceptive person)


• fox -- (the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox)


• Fox, Charles James Fox -- (English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806))


• Fox, George Fox -- (English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691))


• Fox -- (a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River)


• Fox -- (the Algonquian language of the Fox)

The verb fox has 3 senses

• flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on -- (deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week")


• confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate -- (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")


• fox -- (become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots)