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maxxes

maxxes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maxx.

Meaning of maxx

Verb

maxx (third-person singular simple present maxxes, present participle maxxing, simple past and past participle maxxed)

  1. (chiefly incel slang) 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...

Questions about maxxes

What is maxxes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Maxxes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of maxx.

Words near maxxes in the dictionary

  1. Maxwellization
  2. maxwells
  3. Maxwelltown
  4. maxx
  5. maxxed
  6. maxxes
  7. maxxing
  8. Maxy
  9. may
  10. May 35th
  11. May 7th

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maxxes (page history and authors); maxx (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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