Definitions for loxes

loxes lox

Spelling: [loks]
IPA: /lɒks/

Loxes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in loxes (elosx).

Definitions for loxes

noun

  1. 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.
  2. liquid oxygen.
  3. 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.

Origin of loxes

1940-45; Yiddish laks salmon; compare Middle High German, Old High German lahs, cognate with Old English leax, Old Norse lax

Examples for loxes

But as soon as lox finished, the maidens all set upon the stranger, and beat him till he ran away into the woods.

On the path in front of him lox spied a couple of maidens, and they were trying to reach the fruit that grew on a wild plum-tree.

From x-, prefix denoting feminine gender; kan, yellow; lox, to strike with the closed fist.

Those flashlight batteries are cheaper than lox, this is the thing of the future!

So long did lox take to untie the knotted hair-string that when he came down it was quite dark.

Scarcely had they reached the opposite bank when lox appeared on the scene, very angry and out of breath.

The younger sat down and began to weep, thinking that lox would certainly overtake them.

He pounced down, and caught hold of lox by the hair and carried him a mile up into the sky, and then let go.

I love to break the fast with herring and with the very American bagel, lox, and cream cheese.

Word Value for loxes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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