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lox
1[ loks ]
noun
- a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure Scandinavian lox or a sugar cure Nova Scotia lox, often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
lox
2or LOX
[ loks ]
noun
lox
1/ ɒ /
noun
- a kind of smoked salmon
lox
2/ ɒ /
noun
- short for liquid oxygen, esp when used as an oxidizer for rocket fuels
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lox1
First recorded in 1940–45; from Yiddish laks “salmon”; compare Middle High German, Old High German lahs, cognate with Old English leax, Old Norse lax; gravlax ( def )
Origin of lox2
First recorded in 1920–25; l(iquid) ox(ygen)
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lox1
C19: from Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs salmon
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Burns: “Well, take it away. It’s like dipping your tongue in lox.”
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Staring down at our pickles and lox, we wondered how the salty, crispy zing of these foods represented the marriage of culture and microbiology.
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Inside, grime music blasts as a pop-up vendor doles out vegan banh mi to shoppers who clutch bamboo toilet paper and vegan lox.
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If I am he, nope, for why should I credit any ideas of a lox who didn’t realize he couldn’t write?
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They ferment overnight, then she boils and bakes them in the a.m. “to enjoy with Costco lox, an excessive amount of schmear and my morning coffee.”
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