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English
Pronunciation
Noun
tux (plural tuxes)
- (colloquial) Clipping of tuxedo.
2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian:After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
Middle English
Noun
tux
- Alternative form of tusk
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
tūx m
- Alternative form of tūsc
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Derived terms
Q'eqchi
Noun
tux
- sprout
- mange
Further reading
- Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998)