tux
See also: Tux
English
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Rhymes: -ʌks - enPR: tŭks, (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) IPA(key): /tʌks/
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
tux (plural tuxes)
- (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)[1]
- 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.
- 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]