jux
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jooks (“a robbery”), from Fula jukka (“to poke”).
Verb
jux (third-person singular simple present juxes, present participle juxing, simple past and past participle juxed)
- (transitive, New York City, slang) To rob or mug (someone).
- 2008, Richard Price, Lush Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
- 'And jux everybody in sight,' Iacone murmured.
Noun
jux (plural juxes)
- (New York City, slang) A robbery or mugging.
- 2010, Frank C. Matthews, Respect the Jux, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books/Karen Hunter Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 75:
- He called a meeting at The Lodge and informed everyone that there would be no more juxes for a while. They all had enough money to hold them down.
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2024) “jux v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- “jux”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
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