Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

charlie foxtrot

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables: char-lie -fox-trot
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Slang

Example Sentences

"That commission's project has become a huge Charlie Foxtrot; who's in charge over there?"
"Charlie Foxtrot! Tower One approach has active Triple-A!"
"[…]he quotes Tim Dugan, a civilian interrogator at Abu Ghraib, as saying: “It was Charlie Foxtrot without a doubt without a doubt^([sic]). I’ve never seen anything like that, and I never thought that I would see American soldiers so depressed, and morale so low.”"

Etymology

From clusterfuck, abbreviated as CF and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

Charlie Foxtrots (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

clusterfuck

Synonyms

CF

Questions

What does charlie foxtrot mean?: Clusterfuck.
Where does charlie foxtrot come from?: From clusterfuck, abbreviated as CF and expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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