fax

noun

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The hair of the head.
2. (uncountable, usually)The face.

   “The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).

   “OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.”

   “You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.”

   “The details of his [Matthew Perrry's] relationship with Julia Roberts are so 1990s, it is unreal: he wooed her by fax (yes, kids, this was a thing).”

4. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
5. (alt-of, informal, nonstandard, plural, plural-only)Nonstandard form of facts.

verb

1. To send a document via a fax machine.

   “Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.”

   “Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.”

   “SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.”

   “A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.””

   “Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.”

intj

1. (alt-of, alternative, informal)Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).