noun
- See under lox1.
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.
noun
- a kind of smoked salmon
noun
- short for liquid oxygen, esp when used as an oxidizer for rocket fuels
n.1934, American English, from Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs “salmon,” from Proto-Germanic *lakhs-, from the common IE root for the fish, *laks- (cf. Lithuanian laszisza, Russian losos, Polish łosoś “salmon”).