thanx

English

Etymology

X is pronounced /ks/ in English. thanks +‎ -x.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

thanx

1. (slang, intentional) Alternative spelling of thanks
   • 1982 December 25, “Jack In Berserkely (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 14:

     What can I say? THANX It was wild!

Noun

thanx pl (plural only)

1. (slang, intentional) Alternative spelling of thanks
   • 1995, Tupac Shakur, letter to Lori; published in Molly Monjauze, Gloria Cox, Staci Robinson, editors, Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy‎^[1], San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2008, →ISBN:

     Please accept my thanx and gratitude as a small token of appreciation.

   • 2002 June 5, “Senior Wills”, in The News-Ledger‎^[2], 38th year, number 42, West Sacramento, Calif., →OCLC:

     I, Stephen Repace, leave my thanx to all the teachers who helped me get through high school in a fun and exciting manner, without you I’d be lost.

   • 2005, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, “Acknowledgements”, in When Our Children Come Out: How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Young People, Sydney, N.S.W.: Finch Publishing, →ISBN, page 231:

     My thanx also to contributors and research participants whose pieces were unable to be included, only because of word limits: […]

   • 2008, Evelyn Sweet-Hurd, His Name Was Donn: My Brother’s Letters from Vietnam, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 213:

     Since I’ll be walking over hill and dale etc I won’t get a chance to write so please drop a note to H & V, Cindy E. and Joan expressing my thanx for their BD greetings and why I can’t write now—have much to do and little time.

Anagrams

• xanth-