コックス

コ

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ク

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Common word›Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

1

The person who steers the boat and coordinates the rowers in competitive rowing.

部ぶ

で

コックス

を

務つと

め

て

いる

。

He serves as the coxswain for his university's rowing club.

〈人ひと〉がコックスを務つとめるfor someone to serve as the coxswain
彼かれは大だい学がく時じ代だいにボート部ぶでコックスを務つとめていた。
He served as the coxswain on the rowing team back in college.

コックN2
コックス (coxswain, the person who steers a rowing boat) is easily confused with コック (a cook), which differs by only one syllable and has a completely unrelated meaning.

Borrowed from English 'cox' or 'coxswain'.