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UK/pɪks/ US/ˈpɪks/ rare informal obsolete

noun

1.

a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay

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2.

any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept

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Origin

Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.

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