maxxing

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...