lox1

[loks] /lɒks/
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.
Origin
1940-45; < Yiddish laks salmon; compare Middle High German, Old High German lahs, cognate with Old English leax, Old Norse lax

lox2

[loks] /lɒks/
noun
1.
liquid oxygen.
Also, LOX.
Origin
1920-25; l(iquid) ox(ygen)
British Dictionary definitions for lox

lox1

/lɒks/
noun
1.
a kind of smoked salmon
Word Origin
C19: from Yiddish laks, from Middle High German lahs salmon

lox2

/lɒks/
noun
1.
short for liquid oxygen, esp when used as an oxidizer for rocket fuels
Word Origin and History for lox
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").

Related Abbreviations for lox

LOX

liquid oxygen