cox
verbEtymology Clipping of coxswain.
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Ambitransitive To act as coxswain for.
- The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.
- I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.
- Derived terms
- coxed
cox
nounUK /kɒks/ · US /kɑks/
Etymology Clipping of coxswain.
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A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
- A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him.1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
- Derived terms
- box and cox, cox box, coxie, coxless