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    [Noun]  | "pox" | \ ˈpäks \


    1: a virus disease (such as chicken pox) characterized by pustules or eruptions

    2: smallpox

    3: syphilis


    Origin: circa 1530 ;

     Alteration of pocks, plural of pock;

    [Noun]  | "chicken pox" 


    1: an acute contagious disease especially of children marked by low-grade fever and formation of vesicles and caused by a herpesvirus (species Human herpesvirus 3 of the genus Varicellovirus)


    Origin: 1691 ;

    [Verb]  | "pox" 


    1: to infect with a pox and especially with syphilis


    Origin: 1601 ;

    [Noun]  | "pox" 


    1: as in curse, spell;




     [ "pox" ]

    1: Bad, awful, really crappy.

      * e.g.,  ... "That movie was absolutley POX!! 

     [ "pox" ]

    1: Bullshit (Marfia Bikes)

      * e.g.,  ... I ordered my Rocker BMX from Marfia over a fucking month ago, this is truly pox! 

     [ "pox" ]

    1: A surreal cable access show in NYC, involving sock puppets.

      * e.g.,  ... "Watch Pox! Be Pox!" 

     [ "Pox" ]

    1: Anyone who's a nuisance, especially Bono

      * e.g.,  ... Bono is a pox 

     [ "a pox" ]

    1: used in the manner of cursing someone, wish "a pox" on them, as in some sort of disease

      * e.g.,  ... "My lord, that man just drank the last bit of Ale..." 

     [ "Pox" ]

    1: a curse, or hex

      * e.g.,  ... "A pox on your house" 

     [ "Pox" ]

    1: Another name for syphilis

      * e.g.,  ... If you catch the Pox you might die. 

     [ "Poxed" ]

    1: cursed. having bad luck.

      * e.g.,  ... From "a pox on both your houses!" Only its you, you're having bad luck and lots of it. Like, if you keep getting sick, or you're in a fender bender and on the way to the mechanics you're in another you'd say, "Dude, I'm poxed." 

     [ "Pox" ]

    1: Plural of p.o.c. (person of color)

      * e.g.,  ... The grant was intended to help pox, not rich white liberals, to study. 

     [ "Pox" ]

    1: A youngone who can’t have her own fella

      * e.g.,  ... Have you seen that Lauren one she’s a pox 

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