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lox

UK/lɒks//lɑks/

lox noun: salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked. Also the acronym of liquid oxygen.

lox: salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains...
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Noun (1)

lox (uncountable)

  1. (US) Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.

Verb

lox (third-person singular simple present loxes, present participle loxing, simple past and past participle loxed)

  1. (transitive) To supply with liquid oxygen.
    • Fumes coming from the booster at the pad indicate that loxing has begun -- that is, the liquid oxygen has begun to be poured into its tank aboard the Atlas.2002 February 20, Walter Cronkite, “Cronkite Essay on 40th Anniversary of Glenn Orbit”, in NPR
    • The crew chiefs refer to the process as "LOXing the fleet."2012 August 2, Daniel Heaton, “LOXing the fleet: a cold, cold day in the Air National Guard”, in National Guard, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2024

Noun (2) capitalized: LOX

LOX

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lox (“liquid oxygen”).
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of lipoxygenase.
  3. The gene encoding for lysyl oxidase

Noun (3) capitalized: LOx

LOx (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lox (“liquid oxygen”).

Noun (4) capitalized: lOx

lOx (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of lox (“liquid oxygen”).

Also used as

lox is also the acronym of liquid oxygen.

Synonyms of lox

Forms of lox

Noun
alternative formLOX
alternative formLOx
alternative formlOx
Verb
third-person singular presentloxes
present participleloxing
past participleloxed
pastloxed

Origin of lox

Borrowed from Yiddish לאַקס (laks, “salmon”). Doublet of lax.

Abbreviation of liquid oxygen.

Abbreviation

Words formed from lox

Questions about lox

What does lox mean?
Lox means salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh remains uncooked.
What part of speech is lox?
Lox can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce lox?
Lox is pronounced /lɒks/ (UK).

Words near lox in the dictionary

  1. lowveld
  2. lowvelds
  3. Lowville
  4. Lowy
  5. Lowys
  6. lox
  7. Loxahatchee
  8. loxapine
  9. Loxbridge
  10. loxed
  11. loxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lox (page history and authors); LOX (page history and authors); LOx (page history and authors); lOx (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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