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▪ I. lox, n.1|lɒks, ɛl əʊ ɛks|
Also LOX.
[orig. f. liquid oxygen explosive; later interpreted as repr. liquid oxygen.]
a. An explosive device which uses liquid oxygen as an oxidant (see quot. 1946).
1923Chem. Abstr. XVII. 2646 Wood pulp as an ingredient renders LOXs less sensitive to detonation. 1933Mining & Metall. XIV. 368/1 This research was to be centered upon the absorbent material used in the manufacture of LOX cartridges. 1946G. J. Young Elem. Mining (ed. 4) v. 127 Lox consists of a canvas cartridge filled with granular carbonaceous material, moistened, which when soaked in liquid oxygen, removed from the soaking box, and placed in the drill hole can be detonated and is an effective blasting agent. 1966S. Fordham High Explosives & Propellants v. 63 A type of explosive..which achieved popularity for a time and is still used in some countries, is the liquid oxygen explosive or LOX.
b. Liquid oxygen, esp. when used as a rocket propellant.
The 1923 example may have been intended in sense a.
1923Chem. Abstr. XVII. 2646 The ballistic pendulum was found suitable for tests of LOX explosives. 1940News (San Francisco) 3 Oct. 19/4 That liquid is called liquid oxygen, or ‘L-O-X’, as the mining men say. 1949Time 6 June, The Viking burns alcohol and ‘lox’ in a single combustion chamber. 1959Adv. Space Sci. & Technol. I. 193 Existing LOX systems probably will not function properly under weightlessness. 1962Flight Internat. LXXXI. 168/2 The Buccaneer is the first Naval aircraft to use lox.
Hence as v. trans., to fuel with liquid oxygen; ˈloxing vbl. n.
1961A. B. Shepard in Astronauts Suppl. 4 The Red⁓stone was loxed. 1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 187 One of the loxing valves stuck and the technicians had to shift a smaller valve to complete the loading process. 1970R. Turnill Lang. of Space 72 Loading the lox into the launch vehicle's fuel tanks from a ground supply is referred to as loxing.
▪ II. lox, n.2|lɒks|
Pl. lox, loxes.
[f. Yiddish laks, f. G. lachs salmon.]
A kind of smoked salmon.
1941S. Longstreet Last Man around World xii. 135 Listen, you lox-eater—until last year you thought herring was the only thing they took from the sea. 1950F. Allen Let. Oct. in G. Marx Groucho Lett. (1967) 73 At the stage delicatessen..the lox is running good and the cream cheese is spreading easily. 1961B. Malamud New Life (1962) 121 I'll bet lox to bagels that Gerald will get more for the department. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation ix. 293 He..folded himself on to a stool at the counter, and ordered coffee and a bagel with lox. 1972Times 21 July 12/8 Where in Paris,..can one enjoy a breakfast of beigles, lox (Yiddish for salmon) and cream cheese? 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 16 Sept. 35/5 The bagel..often is eaten with smoked salmon or lox from Nova Scotia.
▪ III. lox
? obs. pl. of lock n.1 (see sense 2 note).
1668Clevelands Old Gill ii. in J.C. Revived (ed. 4) 32 Her Breath smells like Lox. |