looksmaxx

English

Alternative forms

• looksmax

Etymology

From looks +‎ -maxx.

Pronunciation

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Verb

looksmaxx (third-person singular simple present looksmaxxes, present participle looksmaxxing, simple past and past participle looksmaxxed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To seek to enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value.
   • 2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker:

     Incel culture advises men to “looksmaxx” or “statusmaxx”—to improve their appearance, to make more money—in a way that presumes that women are not potential partners or worthy objects of possible affection but inconveniently sentient bodies that must be claimed through cold strategy.

   • 2020, Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 48:

     Some attempt to “looksmaxx” with money by finding methods of increasing their sexual market value like getting plastic surgery.

   • 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 79:

     This can be achieved through one of two ways: by ‘looksmaxxing’ or improving one’s physical characteristics in order to become more attractive (Chapter Four) or through the ‘just be white’ (JBW) theory.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:looksmaxx.

Hyponyms

• chadmaxx
• gymmaxx
• hardmaxx
• softmaxx
• surgerymaxx

 

Derived terms

• looksmaxxer
• -maxx