maxx
maxx verb: to enhance one's life by employing looksmaxxing and other similar strategies.
Verb
maxx (third-person singular simple present maxxes, present participle maxxing, simple past and past participle maxxed)
- To enhance one's life by employing looksmaxxing and other similar strategies.
- You could see this in the way maxxing strategies pointed to extremes — not just unsettling ones (eating disorders, height surgeries, high-octane misogyny), but also this weird gamification of mundane social tactics your parents already told you about (wash your face, wear a decent shirt, get some...2025 October 11, Nitsuh Abebe, “The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
- By this logic, it makes more sense to turn inward than to make oneself vulnerable, to nihilistically maxx rather than actually encounter the other.2026 March 3, Christine Emba, “The Reason Gen Z Isn’t Dating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2026
Forms of maxx
| third-person singular present | maxxes |
|---|---|
| present participle | maxxing |
| past participle | maxxed |
| past | maxxed |
Origin of maxx
Back-formation from -maxx.
Questions about maxx
- What does maxx mean?
- Maxx means to enhance one's life by employing looksmaxxing and other similar strategies.
- What part of speech is maxx?
- Maxx is a verb.
- What is the past tense of maxx?
- The past tense of maxx is maxxed.
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