Pix

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: pics, picks, pyx

First attested 1932, abbreviation of pictures, first used in , along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage.

Full definition of pix

Noun

1. (informal) Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture".
• 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in Billboard (magazine), Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.
• 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.
• 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, ISBN 978-1-59558-551-6, pages 15–16:He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:
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• take pix of damage afterward
2. Specifically, motion pictures; movies.

Noun

1. A variant of pyx----