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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Oxo

proper name of a brand of beef extract, 1899, British.

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oxo

n. 1 (context chemistry in combination English) A substituent oxygen atom connected to another atom by a double bond 2 the game noughts and crosses

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OXO

OXO or Noughts and Crosses is a video game developed by A S Douglas in 1952 for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) computer, which simulates a game of noughts and crosses, also called tic-tac-toe. It was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games. Douglas programmed the game as part of a thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge. The EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers, with memory that could be read from or written to, and had three small cathode ray tube screens to display the state of the memory; Douglas re-purposed one screen to demonstrate portraying other information to the user, such as the state of a noughts and crosses game. After the game served its purpose, it was discarded. OXO, along with a draughts game by Christopher Strachey completed around the same time, is one of the earliest known games to display visuals on an electronic screen. Under some definitions it thus may qualify as the first video game, though other definitions exclude it due to its lack of moving or real-time updating graphics.

Oxo (food)

Oxo is a brand of food products, including stock cubes, herbs and spices, dried gravy, and yeast extract. The original product was the beef stock cube, but Oxo now also markets chicken and other flavour cubes, e.g. Chinese Recipe and Indian Recipe. The cubes are broken up and used as flavouring in meals or gravy or dissolved into boiling water.

In the United Kingdom, the Oxo brand belongs to Premier Foods. In South Africa, the Oxo brand is owned and manufactured by Mars, Incorporated and in Canada is owned and manufactured by Knorr.

OXO (brand)

OXO is a manufacturer of kitchen utensils, office supplies, and housewares based in New York City.

OXO (band)

OXO was an American dance-rock band with the palindromic name formed in 1983 by Ish 'Angel' Ledesma, the former lead singer of Foxy. He formed the band with guitarist Orlando Nuñez, bass player Frank Garcia, and drummer Freddy Alwag. The band's only Top 40 hit was " Whirly Girl", a new wave style song about Ish's wife, which, according to Ledesma, was originally titled "Worldly Girl". Despite its one-hit wonder, OXO's success was not to last, and the band broke up a few years later.

Frank Garcia's stepson, G.J. Echternkamp, has directed two films about the relationship between his stepfather and his mother: the documentary Frank and Cindy in 2007 and the comedy of the same name in 2015, which includes a rearranged version of "Whirly Girl" and some excerpts from its video clip.

Episode 104 (12 April 2007) of the Showtime series This American Life, based on the long-running PRI radio show, focuses on Frank Garcia and OXO.

Oxo (horse)

Oxo was a British thoroughbred racehorse noted for winning the 1959 Grand National.

Oxo was a bay gelding bred in Dorset by A. C. Wyatt. An eight-year-old owned by Mr Jack Biggs and trained by Willie Stephenson in Royston, Hertfordshire, Oxo was ridden in the National by Michael Scudamore. Starting as third favourite at 8/1, Oxo fought it out for the lead with Wyndburgh only winning, after fighting all the way to the finish, by a length and a half.

Usage examples of "oxo".

When you handed Hatch an uncompleted cheque made out to Oxo for him to sign in that off-handed and very unbusinesslike way that he probably imagined was appropriate to being rich, was it not with the clear intention of expanding ‘Oxo’ to Oxonia, adding the rest of the firm’s title and finally inserting the amount—a substantial amount—for payment?

The Queen bought one onion, two carrots, one turnip, one pound of potatoes, a large loaf of bread, a jar of strawberry jam (small) and two Oxo cubes.

Great h rses in the past had started that way, like Oxo and Ben Nevis which had both won the Grand National, and although Coral Key was unlikely to be of that class, it seemed to me that he, too, had the feel of good things to come.

Great horses in the past had started that way, like Oxo and Ben Nevis, which had both won the Grand National, and although Coral Key was unlikely to be of that class, it seemed to me that he, too, had the feel of good things to come.