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cox

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kɒks//
  • United States//kɑks//

A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.

noun

  1. 1

    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.

Etymology

Clipping of coxswain.

verb

  1. 1

    To act as coxswain for.

    The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team.

    I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.

Forms

plural
coxes
past tense
coxed
past participle
coxed
present participle
coxing
third person singular
coxes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).