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lox

noun
/lɒks/UK/lɑks/US

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from לאַקס

Definitions

  1. Salmon that is cured in brine and then smoked at a low temperature so that the flesh…

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

  2. Acronym of liquid oxygen, molecular oxygen in liquid form.

    • [Man]: Lox tanking secured? / [Man 2]: Lox tanking secured.

  3. 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.
    • The crew chiefs refer to the process as "LOXing the fleet."
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

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

    2. Acronym of lipoxygenase.

    3. The gene encoding for lysyl oxidase

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA