[loks] 
| 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. |
| a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants. |
| lox 1 (lŏks) n. pl. lox or lox·es Smoked salmon. [Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs, salmon, from Old High German; see laks- in Indo-European roots.] |
| lox 2 (lŏks) n. Liquid oxygen, especially when used as a rocket fuel oxidizer. [l(iquid) + ox(ygen).] |
| LOX liquid oxygen |
