Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Smoked salmon.
- n. Liquid oxygen, especially when used as a rocket fuel oxidizer.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants
- n. brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked
Etymologies
- Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs, salmon, from Old High German; see laks- in Indo-European roots.l(iquid) + ox(ygen).
Examples
“*decides not to, halps self to lox and bagel and creem chease and capers and moar lox*”
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“(Every good Jewish boy knows that lox is expensive!)”
“Spending $20 to express ship $100 worth of lox is an extravagance, but justifiable.”
“This is curious, until you remember that England is also where they call a lox like Stacey Kent the new Ella.”
“What many of us mistakenly call lox is actually Nova-style smoked salmon.”
“Hamming It Up A press release from the Food and Drug Administration reports that Vita Food Products is recalling lox possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria:”
“Refrigerated smoked seafood, such as lox, also is off-limits.”
“I've also served it over salt-cured salmon such as lox or gravlax instead of gefilte fish as a starter for holiday dinners.”
“Upon hearing the word "lox", she said, "Oh, you mean, smoked salmon.”
“I interpret the word "lox" as a Jewish identifier.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lox’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 68 more...
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