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English
Etymology
Clippings.
Pronunciation
Noun
tox
- (medicine, informal) Clipping of toxicity.
- GI tox ― gastrointestinal toxicity
- (informal) Clipping of toxicology.
His tox screen came back positive.
2018 September 10, Jan Hoffman, “Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.”, in The New York Times:“How are you going to have a conversation around the patient’s positive tox screen results?” asked Dr. Lidya H. Wlasiuk, who teaches addiction awareness and interventions here at Boston University School of Medicine.
Adjective
tox (not comparable)
- (medicine, informal) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
crashing tox patient
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *to-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tox (comparative daha tox, superlative ən tox)
- saturated, full, sated (not hungry)
- Synonym: doyğun
- Antonym: ac
Toxun acdan nə xəbəri var? (proverb)- The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
- (literally, “What does the full know of the hungry?”)
- well-fed, plump
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kök
- well off, not in need, living in material abundance
- Synonym: doyğun
- smug, snobby
- fed up (with something)
- Synonym: bezmiş
- (of colors) dark, saturated
- Synonym: tünd
- Antonym: açıq
- tox qırmızı ― dark red
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
Clipping of toxicomane.
Pronunciation
Noun
tox m or f by sense (plural tox)
- (slang) druggie, nitty
- Synonyms: chlague, gbaneur, gbanman, drogué
1998, “Sans faire couler le sang”, in Don Choa (lyrics), Fonky Family (music), Si Dieu Veut:Y’a rien de glorieux, ça c’est pour les tox- There is nothing glorious, this is for the nitties.
Salar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu.
Pronunciation
Noun
tox
- chicken, hen
References
- 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “tox”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 6