lax

noun

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal)A salmon.
2. (slang, uncountable)lacrosse.

   ““I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of laxative.

adj

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

   “The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.”

   “Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.”

2. Loose; not tight or taut.

   “The rope fell lax.”

   “The Fleſh of this ſort of [cartilaginous] Fiſh being lax and ſpungy, and nothing ſo firm, ſolid and weighty as that of the bony Fiſhes, and there being a good quantity of Air contained in the Cavity of their Abdomen, they cannot ſink in the Water without letting in ſome of it by theſe Holes (the Orifices whereof are opened and ſhut at pleaſure by the help of Muſcles provided for that purpoſe) into the hollow of their Bellies, whereby they preponderate the Water and deſcend; […]”

   “Sreedharan and Mirsa (1973) reported that two lax panicle mutants, designated as nude panicle mutation, were obtained from the M₂ of two rice cultivars.”

3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

   “The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.”

   “Prior to this match, Albion had only scored three league goals all season, but Wes Brown's lax marking allowed Morrison to head in their fourth from a Chris Brunt free-kick and then, a minute later, the initial squandering of possession and Michael Turner's lack of pace let Long run through to slot in another.”

4. Describing an associative monoidal functor.
5. (archaic)Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

name

1. Los Angeles International Airport

   “I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.”

   “Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.”

   “Nothing happened, mind your business yo step / You know we connect, JFK 2 LAX”

   “By the time I landed at LAX and switched my phone out of airplane mode, Hasan Piker had been streaming for three hours.”

2. A surname.