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lax

Pronunciation: /laks/

“lax” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. salmon (fish)
  2. salmon (meat)
  3. A thousand of some unit of currency, typically SEK.

Etymology

From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz. The 1000 SEK sense probably refers to the salmon color of old 1000 SEK banknotes. Compare the similarly themed older slang skäring, from skär (“pink”); räka (“prawn”); tegel (“brick”); and röding (“char”), from röd (“red”); all referring to the red-pinkish color of old 1000 SEK banknotes. Color and animal-related nicknames for banknotes used to be…

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