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jux

jux verb: to rob or mug (someone).

Verb

jux (third-person singular simple present juxes, present participle juxing, simple past and past participle juxed)

  1. (New-York-City, slang, transitive) To rob or mug (someone).
    • Jux me, I'll have your mama picking out your casket, bastard.2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records
    • 'And jux everybody in sight,' Iacone murmured.2008, Richard Price, Lush Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Noun

jux (plural juxes)

  1. (New-York-City, slang) A robbery or mugging.
    • He called a meeting at The Lodge and informed everyone that there would be no more juxes for a while. They all had enough money to hold them down.2010, Frank C. Matthews, Respect the Jux, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 75

Proper noun capitalized: Jux

Jux

  1. A surname.

Forms of jux

Verb
third-person singular presentjuxes
present participlejuxing
past participlejuxed
pastjuxed
Noun
pluraljuxes

Origin of jux

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jooks (“a robbery”), from Fula jukka (“to poke”).

Questions about jux

What does jux mean?
Jux means to rob or mug (someone).
What part of speech is jux?
Jux can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of jux?
The past tense of jux is juxed.

Words near jux in the dictionary

  1. juwaub
  2. juwaubed
  3. juwaubing
  4. juwaubs
  5. Juwuri
  6. jux
  7. juxed
  8. juxes
  9. juxing
  10. juxta
  11. juxta-

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