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[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. |
Origin:
1940–45; < Yiddish laks salmon; cf. MHG, OHG lahs, c. OE leax, ON lax
1940–45; < Yiddish laks salmon; cf. MHG, OHG lahs, c. OE leax, ON lax
liquid oxygen
–noun
| 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. |
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| 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).] |
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lox
1941, Amer.Eng., from Yiddish laks, from M.H.G. lahs "salmon," from P.Gmc. *lakhs-, from the common IE root for the fish (cf. Lith. laszisza, Rus. losos, Pol. losos "salmon").
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| LOX liquid oxygen |
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