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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Smoked salmon.
  2. n. Liquid oxygen, especially when used as a rocket fuel oxidizer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. smoked salmon
  2. n. liquid oxygen
  3. n. lynx

WordNet 3.0

  1. 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
  2. n. brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked

Etymologies

  1. Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs, salmon, from Old High German; see laks- in Indo-European roots.l(iquid) + ox(ygen).

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‘lox’ has been looked up 1912 times, added to 18 lists, and has a Scrabble score of 10.