silver fox
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Noun
silver fox (plural silver foxes)
- A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.
- A domestic rabbit of a rare breed with silvery-black fur.
- (colloquial) An attractive man who has graying hair.
- Coordinate term: silver vixen
- 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
- My surprise visitor was Marcus, arriving early for the party. In tow he had a mean silver fox, a curator who was programming an encyclopedic exhibition of the anti-epoch to which Marcus and I belonged at a major museum.
- 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.
Derived terms
Translations
melanistic fox
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Further reading
silver fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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