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Cox

//kɑks// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname from Middle English for either son of, or servant of someone named Cocke or Cook.

    "For the impeachment article to get to the floor, it will need the approval of House GOP Speaker Kirk Cox."

  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
  4. 4
    A commune in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France; the name comes from Occitan.
  5. 5
    A municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain.
Noun
  1. 1
    A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.

    "A particularly nervous boy was appointed cox, and the steering principle explained to him by Joskins. Joskins himself took stroke. He told the others that it was simple enough; all they had to do was to follow him."

  2. 2
    Acronym of cyclooxygenase. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew wordnet
  4. 4
    either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To act as coxswain for. ambitransitive

    "The physicist Stephen Hawking used to cox for a college rowing team."

  2. 2
    act as the coxswain, in a boat race wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of coxswain.

Etymology 2

Clipping of coxswain.

Etymology 3

The surname has converged from several different origins; see Cox.

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