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max

adjectiveadverbnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //mæks//

Maximum; maximal.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalMaximum; maximal.

Etymology

Abbreviation of maximum.

adverb

  1. 1

    informalat the most; maximum.

    Four days max, then, to get them to safety.

noun

  1. 1

    informalAn extreme, a great extent.

    He pushed himself to the max.

  2. 2

    obsoleteGin.

    Oh! for a glass of max!

    'I remember,' said the pale man, 'the fust night as the Dandy ever came to this crib; he sat at this very table, and drank max with Charley Chatfield. […]

  3. 3

    Variant of maximuminformalClipping of maximum.

verb

  1. 1

    To reach the limit; to reach the maximum.

    He maxed out his odds of dating Rebecca.

    She maxed out all her credit cards while she was out of work.

  2. 2

    informalTo relax.

Forms

plural
maxes
past tense
maxed
past participle
maxed
present participle
maxing
third person singular
maxes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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