"spex" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1935, Ralph Merrill Barstow, Build a Better Practice, Doctor, page 15:",
          "text": "If a patient feels that you are trying to sell a pair of spex, he will freeze up on you.",
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          "text": "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, […]",
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        "(colloquial, plural only) Dated form of specs (“spectacles”)."
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      "ipa": "/spɛks/"
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      "homophone": "specs"
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        "(colloquial, plural only) Dated form of specs (“spectacles”)."
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