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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.

Origin:
1940–45; < Yiddish laks salmon; cf. MHG, OHG lahs, c. OE leax, ON lax

lox

2[loks]
Also, LOX


Origin:
1920–25; l(iquid) ox(ygen)

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.
Also called lox, LOX


Origin:
1875–80
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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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Word Origin & History

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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Abbreviations & Acronyms
LOX
liquid oxygen
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