tux

See also: Tux

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ʌks
  • enPR: tŭks, IPA(key): /tʌks/

Noun

tux (plural tuxes)

  1. (colloquial) A tuxedo.
    • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)
      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

  1. Alternative form of tusk
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