fuchs Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
    Klaus Fuchs; Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs.

WordNet


Fuchs noun
Etymology
G., prop., a fox.
Definitions
  1. (German Univ.) A student of the first year.

Webster 1913