cox
noun
cox
1 American
[koks]
/ kɒks /
noun
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coxes
plural
verb (used with object)
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coxes,
present (3rd person singular)
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coxed,
past participle, past
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coxing
present participle
Cox
2
American
[koks]
/ kɒks /
noun
cox
1
British
/ kɒks /
noun
verb
Cox
2
British
/ kɒks /
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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coxsimple
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coxessimple
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have coxedperfect
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has coxedperfect
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am coxingprogressive
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are coxingprogressive
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is coxingprogressive
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have been coxingperfect progressive
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has been coxingperfect progressive
Past
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coxedsimple
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had coxedperfect
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was coxingprogressive
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were coxingprogressive
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had been coxingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of cox
First recorded in 1865–70; short form
Example Sentences
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Kennedy, also a two-time world champion, will cox the crew of Frankie Allen, Giedre Rakauskaite, Ed Fuller and Morgan Fice-Noyes in Bled, Slovenia.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
The British cox, who has now been given the all-clear, is set to return to training on the water on Monday.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023
German-Italian canoeist Josefa Idem retired after the 2012 Olympics and Canadian rowing cox Lesley Thompson-Willie moved into coaching since her last Olympic appearance in 2016.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
Under pressure from the IOC, the sprinters would be expelled from the Olympics, but the Harvard rowers, with Hoffman serving as cox, still had a race ahead of them.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2018
“Typical coxswain abuse,” one Washington cox later said, laughing.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
In the left-hander's absence for the home Test series against Pakistan this summer, Emilio Gay, Jordan Cox and Dan Lawrence came into the England XI.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
There is already some evidence to suggest an increase in productivity, Cox and Azhar wrote, but for now, the high investment into AI’s build-out is weighing down productivity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Mr. Cox is the author of “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn” and a former chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That implied that the effect of the subsidy terminations had slowed, in the view of market analysts at Cox Automotive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Captain Cox told Thomas Jones that Booth and Herold had spent the night in the pine thicket.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
"Crack," snapped the starter's gun, and 56 oars buried themselves in the water, while seven megaphoned coxes roared at their crews.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nick Dunlop, the coxswain on the UW men’s top eight, coxed the Australia women’s four to a gold medal at the 2022 Under-23 World Championships.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Her mother, Lisa, rowed for Team USA at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, coming in seventh in the women’s coxed quadruple sculls.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
The mixed coxed four are aiming to retain the title they won four years ago, with Pam Relph the only crew member back again.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2016
They have won six world championships titles in the pair, and one in the coxed pair, Olympic gold in London, and are unbeaten in more than 60 races since they combined in 2009.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2016
He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Juyon founded the group after she was struck by the amount of rubbish floating around her boat while she was coxing on the River Avon at high tide.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
UW senior Grace Murdock, who has been coxing UW’s women’s second varsity eight, got her start in high school and soon learned there was more to the job than she thought.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
When sophomore Bronwen Holmes got the call to shift from coxing the Jackson-Reed girls’ third-fastest varsity boat to the boys’ fastest boat — right before the boys’ two national championship races — she was apprehensive.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
“It’s a very windy river so coxing becomes very important,” Callahan said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
He moved Shorty Hunt into the JV boat Moch was coxing.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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