Meanings
noun
- colloquialdatedpluralplural onlyDated form of specs (“spectacles”).
If a patient feels that you are trying to sell a pair of spex, he will freeze up on you.
1935, Ralph Merrill Barstow, Build a Better Practice, Doctor, page 151 more example
If you state flatly that your fee is $5 or $20, they take it for granted that this fee covers everything you must do to "fit a pair of spex." They know that you are an optometrist, that you must have gone to college, […]
1955, The Optometric Weekly and the Optometrist & Optician, page 491
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with spex
xsexcomplexexspecsannextexflexrexhexxxxxlexbxcodexCSXvextranssexperplexJexprexkexintertexClexcryptex
All rhymes →Sounds the same
Cite this entry
APA
spex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spex
MLA
“spex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spex. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spex,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spex.
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