See looksmaxx on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From looks + -maxx.",
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"ref": "2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2020, Annie Jones, \"Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online\", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 48",
"text": "Some attempt to “looksmaxx” with money by finding methods of increasing their sexual market value like getting plastic surgery."
},
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"ref": "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",
"text": "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."
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"To seek to enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value."
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"(transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To seek to enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value."
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"word": "looksmax"
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