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Twix en · NOUN

Etymology

Brand name, a blend of twin + sticks, since there are two biscuits of the product in each package.

Meanings

1. A popular chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, consisting of two fingers of biscuit with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate).
   • I even ate a Twix before bed each night, not once thinking about how many miles it would take me to run off the calories. 2015, Branch Kimball, My Eating Disorder: Thoughts During Sickness and Recovery:
   • Then—oh so casually—she was asked to select either a Twix bar or an apple, as thanks for her participation in the experiment. 2008, Cordelia Fine, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, page 173:
   • Seamus scrapes his chair back with an ear-splitting screech and dashes off to make a phone call to get the patient back to the department. I finish his Twix. 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 9:

Forms

Translations (2)

de Raider (chocolate bar) · de Twix (chocolate bar)