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looksmax

looksmax is the alternative form of looksmaxx.

Meaning of looksmaxx

Verb

looksmaxx (third-person singular simple present looksmaxxes, present participle looksmaxxing, simple past and past participle looksmaxxed)

  1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value.
    • Incel culture advises men to “looksmaxx” or “statusmaxx”—to improve their appearance, to make more money—in a way that presumes that women are not potential partners or worthy objects of possible affection but inconveniently sentient bodies that must be claimed through cold strategy.2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2018

Forms of looksmax

third-person singular presentlooksmaxes
present participlelooksmaxing
past participlelooksmaxed
pastlooksmaxed

Origin of looksmax

From looks + -max.

Questions about looksmax

What is looksmax the alternative form of?
Looksmax is the alternative form of looksmaxx.

Words near looksmax in the dictionary

  1. looksism
  2. looksist
  3. looksists
  4. looksmatch
  5. looksmatches
  6. looksmax
  7. looksmaxed
  8. looksmaxes
  9. looksmaxing
  10. looksmaxx
  11. looksmaxxed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looksmax (page history and authors); looksmaxx (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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