thanx

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A form of thanks — Used to express appreciation or gratitude.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

interjection
  1. alternativeslangintentionalAlternative spelling of thanks.

    What can I say? THANX It was wild!

    1982 December 25, “Jack In Berserkely (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 14
nounthanx pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyslangintentionalAlternative spelling of thanks.

    Thanx and a tip of the slumber cap to jules henry marr

    1967 July 15, “Hatlo’s They’ll Do It Every Time”, in Florence Morning News, 44th year, number 196, Florence, S.C., page 11
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    Please accept my thanx and gratitude as a small token of appreciation.

    1995, Tupac Shakur, letter to Lori; published in Molly Monjauze, Gloria Cox, Staci Robinson, editors, Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2008, →ISBN

    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.

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

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

    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

    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.

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

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

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

Full word history & related roots →
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APA

thanx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thanx

MLA

“thanx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thanx. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thanx,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thanx.

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