max
[maks]Slang.
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- max out,
- to reach a point at which no more improvement, profit, or benefit can occur; level off: In her last job she maxed out at $25,000 a year.
- to reach the limit of one's capacity, endurance, etc.: The sales department has maxed out and needs more personnel to call on new clients.
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- to the max, to the greatest or furthest degree; totally: That book is disgusting to the max.
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Origin of max
by shortening
Max
[maks]
- a male given name, form of Maximilian.
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MAX
- Cinemax: a cable television channel.
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Roach
[rohch]
- MaxwellMax, 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.
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Examples from the Web for max
Contemporary Examples
Picasso and Guillaume can laugh through an entire night of suggestions, inventions, songs, games that Max plays with his face.
“Max in particular has been very smart about staying current and remaining a student of the craft,” Borchetta says.
“Max, [my] agent, make me rich,” she says, the crowd roaring.
Tennis Star Li Na Says Goodbye to the Court…and Puts the Sport’s Rise in Asia in QuestionNicholas McCarvel
September 19, 2014
Max Drummer (Harrison Ford) is the CIA chief who ordered the expendables to take Stonebanks down.
Soon after he was cast in the critically beloved ABC sitcom Happy Endings, on which he played Max Blum.
Historical Examples
Max had new friends, new social obligations; his time was taken up.
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"I'm not absolutely useless where I am, you know, Max," he said.
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Max, cigarette in hand, was coming across, under the ailanthus tree.
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If he ever suspected any lack of finer fiber in Max, he put the thought away.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Max had roused at the sound of Le Moyne's voice, not to suspicion, of course, but to memory.
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max
- the most significant, highest, furthest, or greatest thing
- to the max to the ultimate extent
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See also max out
max.
- maximum
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roach1
- a European freshwater cyprinid food fish, Rutilus rutilus, having a deep compressed body and reddish ventral and tail fins
- any of various similar fishes
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French roche, of obscure origin
roach2
- short for cockroach
- slang the butt of a cannabis cigarette
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roach3
- the amount by which the leech of a fore-and-aft sail projects beyond an imaginary straight line between the clew and the head
- the curve at the foot of a square sail
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Word Origin
C18: of unknown origin
Roach
- Hal, full name Harald Eugene Roach . 1892–1992, US film producer, whose company produced numerous comedy films in the 1920s and 1930s, including those featuring Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy
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Word Origin and History for max
v.
"to reach the maximum level," by 1986, colloquial, from maximize or related words. Related: Maxed; maxing.
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roach
n.1
shortened form of cockroach, 1837, on mistaken notion that it was a compound. In contemporary writing said to be from a polite desire to avoid the sexual connotation in the first syllable. Meaning "butt of a marijuana cigarette" is first recorded 1938, perhaps from resemblance to the insect, but perhaps a different word entirely.
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roach
n.2
small freshwater fish, c.1200, from Old French roche (13c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Applied to similar-looking fish in North America.
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