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▪ I. pix1 Obs. exc. dial.|pɪks|
[app. syncopated from ME. pikeis, picas, pykes, pickaxe.]
A pick.
1708Brit. Apollo No. 46. 1/2 A Puncture with a Pix. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 116 Which the sandman's delving spade And the pitman's pix have made. 1851T. Sternberg Dial. & Folklore Northampt., Pix, Pick, a pick-axe.
▪ II. pix2|pɪks|
var. pics, pl. of pic4.
In quot. 1932 used for the sing.
1932Variety 19 July 4/5 (heading) ‘Million’, Par's all⁓star pix. Ibid. 9 Aug. 15/4 (heading) Open sesame for Brit. pix in Dominion. 1935Ibid. 3 Apr. 10/1 On Sunday two powerful b.o. pix. were released. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas ii. 20 ‘Your face seems extraordinarily familiar, too.’ ‘You've probably seen it in pix.’ ‘No, I've never been there.’ ‘In the pictures.’ 1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely iii. 13 That's what I rate after eighteen years in this man's police department. No pix, no space, not even four lines in the want-ad section. 1945[see hypo v.]. 1955Pohl & Kornbluth Space Merchants ii. 22 Our artists can work from the pix you brought back. 1960Analog Science Fact/Fiction Dec. 48/2 Now they have a chance to get their news releases and faked pix out in quantity. 1973E. Hyams Final Agenda iv. 53 Barnet said, ‘I want the Victoria Lowell pix.’.. [He] began looking through the thirty-seven photographs of Victoria Lowell. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 90 He would be holed up somewhere, jerking himself off and drooling over the Playboy pix. 1977Zigzag June 23/3 Tome is shown the Warner Bros. press kit for him, with accompanying pix.
▪ III. pix, pixis
see pyx, pyxis. |