lox

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   brine-cured salmon; also liquid oxygen

   He ordered a bagel with cream cheese and lox.

Simplified etymology

Lox entered English in the mid-20th century through Yiddish and derives from the German word for “salmon.”

From Yiddish laks ('salmon'), from Middle High German lahs, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- ('salmon'). The 'liquid oxygen' sense is an unrelated acronym.

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