cox

¹ American  

[koks] / kɒks /

noun

1. coxswain.

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verb (used with object)

1. to act as coxswain to (a boat).

Cox ² American  

[koks] / kɒks /

noun

1. James Middleton, 1870–1957, U.S. journalist and politician.

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cox ¹ British  

/ kɒks /

noun

1. a coxswain, esp of a racing eight or four

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verb

1. to act as coxswain of (a boat)

Cox ² British  

/ kɒks /

noun

1. David. 1783–1859, English landscape painter

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Other Word Forms

• coxless adjective

Etymology

Origin of cox

First recorded in 1865–70; short form

Example Sentences

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 30-year-old cox had had two rounds of chemotherapy when she was named in the squad for Munich.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2022

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

Across the way, Wilhelm Mahlow, the cox in the German boat, told Gerd Vols, his stroke, the same thing.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown