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  • noun Plural form of pox.

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Examples

  • Look up poxes, wire transmissions, revenge spells, and anything else you can think of.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • Since chicken poxes is really only dangerous to adults, why not wait on the vaccine until the child approaches adulthood and has not had the chicken poxes before vaccination?

    he's gotta have his dip-tet, honey 2009

  • Anytime any of us are on public transportation and someone coughs or sneezes, we are all obligated, under the Unspoken Rules of New Yorkerhood, to glare at that person with fear and loathing and disgust, as if their mere infirm presence in our lives will forever plague us with poxes upon our houses.

    Meredith Lopez: Vaccines Against Terrorism 2009

  • Who is going to spend time in the courts, the council meetings, interviewing the police, getting vox poxes, talking to sub-comittees, spending weeks and plenty of cash writing fascinating features etc…totally free of charge?

    The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal « BuzzMachine 2009

  • On the other hand, my state (or Commonwealth to be technically accurate) requires vaccines against the chicken poxes.

    he's gotta have his dip-tet, honey 2009

  • Thanks for playing, and I promise, no poxes - those were reserved for the people I directly tagged.

    At My Table 2006

  • They flitted over cavaliers from every cranny of Christendom, armed pilgrims who were starving, sweating, flea-bitten and consumed with poxes.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Augustus said; he had a big nervousness about diseases, the various poxes particularly.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Augustus said; he had a big nervousness about diseases, the various poxes particularly.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • Augustus said; he had a big nervousness about diseases, the various poxes particularly.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

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