Fuchs \Fuchs\, n. [G., prop., a fox.] (German Univ.) A student of the first year.
Fuchs n : 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) [syn: {Klaus Fuchs}, {Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs}]