Twix

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noun

A popular chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, consisting of two fingers of biscuit with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate).

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounTwix (plural Twixes)

plural Twixes

  1. A popular chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, consisting of two fingers of biscuit with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate).

    I even ate a Twix before bed each night, not once thinking about how many miles it would take me to run off the calories.

    2015, Branch Kimball, My Eating Disorder: Thoughts During Sickness and Recovery
    2 more examples

    Then—oh so casually—she was asked to select either a Twix bar or an apple, as thanks for her participation in the experiment.

    2008, Cordelia Fine, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, page 173

    Seamus scrapes his chair back with an ear-splitting screech and dashes off to make a phone call to get the patient back to the department. I finish his Twix.

    2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 9

Origin

Brand name, a blend of twin + sticks, since there are two biscuits of the product in each package.

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Translations

German Twix, Raider
  • Twixchocolate bar
  • Raiderchocolate bar
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APA

Twix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twix

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“Twix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twix. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Twix,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twix.

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