max v.
1. to drink.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 19/2: Betty, who had been ‘maxing’ some before she entered the theatre, saw through the dodge. |
2. to treat to a drink.
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 76/2: Wattie [...] immediately presented us as friends of his, and volunteered to ‘max’ the company. |
3. (US campus) to achieve a maximum score or grade in an examination.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | West Point Scrap-Book 339: To max it. — To make a perfect recitation . | |
| Colored Cadet at West Point 53: ‘Maxed.’ — Made a thorough recitation. | |
 | West Point Today 296: Max, v. To make a 3.0 in recitation; to do a thing perfectly [DA]. | |
| Current Sl. II:3 4: Max, v. To do well, to achieve perfection. | |
| ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 54: max ‘do well’. |
4. (US Und.) to serve the full length of a jail sentence.
| Prison Sl. 108: Max a Number Refers to an inmate who serves his entire prison sentence before being released. |
5. (US) to give one’s maximum effort.
| Straight Life 143: These guys were shipped out to max at the farm. | |
| Snow Crash (1993) 72: ‘’Sup with you?’ ‘Maxing The Clink.’ ‘Whoa! Who popped you?’. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 65: He liked to pyramid the sets, really max it out so the veins popped in his biceps like fat pink wire. | |
| Westsiders 243: I’m in this bitch. Whoop whoop whoop. I’m maxing. |
6. (US) to reach or exceed the limit.
| Way Past Cool 144: Coldly, Ty considered if he’d even live that much longer, especially the way Deek was maxing things lately. | |
| ‘Backwash’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 7 [TV script] ‘You got a credit card?’ ‘You?’ It’s maxed to the max, man°. | |
| Whites 3: [He] jad thirty-two years on the Job, owned two bars in Queens, and was just there to max out his pension. |
7. (US black/campus) to have a very good time, to relax.
| ‘Last Night’ 🎵 At the house we just maxed / The girls came out ready to attack. | |
| Way Past Cool 116: They were giggling and maxing the way kids do in restaurants because they know their parents won’t yell at them. | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 max v 1. to relax; HANG OUT. (‘I’m just maxing.’). | |
| ‘Ebonics’ 🎵 Max mean to relax. | |
| Hip-Hop Connection Jan.–Feb. 55: Max [...] a verb meaning to chill out and enjoy. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Baggin. Maxin. Mashin. Wildin. |
8. (US Und., also max out) to give the highest possible sentence for a cited crime.
| Homeboy 141: They’re going to max you on the Four Eightyseven GTA. | |
| Workin’ It 74: The parole board told me ‘You have a bad prison record. We’re going to max you out.’ So I had another eleven and a half, you know. | |
| mydogharriet.blogspot.com 26 Sept. 🌐 If she makes jackrabbit parole [...] explain that she needs to max out in the big house until you tell her shes done with her flat time. |
In derivatives
1. drunk or highly intoxicated.
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 12/1: He was pretty well ‘maxed,’ and ordered half a dozen bottles of wine for the company. | |
| NDAS 274/2: maxed adj. narcotics Intoxicated with a narcotic. |
2. (US) full to maximum capacity.
| Army Reporter Feb. in Maledicta VI:1+2 252: ‘Your ears are maxed to the onions,’ comments the Hood. |
In phrases
(US black/campus) to take life easy, to enjoy oneself; esp. in phr. maxin’ and relaxin’.
| Street Talk 2 37: I was just maxin’ and relaxin’ here. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. |
1. very drunk or highly intoxicated.
| ‘Soused Synonyms’ in Words! 251/1: Maxed out. |
2. at one’s limits, e.g. of strength or weight or credit.
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 66: He’d never be that maxed out again, but he’d sworn off the ’roids ever since. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 24: ‘Your credit card won’t swipe, Sir,’ [...] because the thing is maxed to the focking gills. | |
| Star islande (2011) 2: He was thinking of his girlfriend on a rampage with his maxed-out credit card . |
1. (US prison) to complete one’s sentence without gaining any remission for good behaviour.
| Women in Prison 63I : [...] violated my CR and was sent to Alderson, to max it out. | |
| Wiseguy (2001) 140: They [...] were such bad parole risks that they knew they’d max out no matter how hard they worked. | |
| Prison Sl. 108: Max Out [...] Refers to an inmate who serves his entire prison sentence before being released. | |
| Workin’ It 122: She maxed out at Irwin. She was in Irwin for robbing something. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘I maxed out, if you recall. No parole, no probation’. | |
| Boy from County Hell 115: [F]ive more years before he could max out of Angola. |
2. of an object or person, to reach its limit; esp. used of a credit card.
| in L.A. Times 30 May I 1: We were just maxed out [...] Just scrambling to keep up [HDAS]. | |
| Life Its Ownself (1985) 118: Look here [...] We can max out at Oklahoma at thirty thou a year. At Texas, we can max out at twenty-five a year. | |
| ‘Rhyme Pays’ 🎵 As my bass is max’n out the v.u.s on your box / There’ll be no doubt within your mind whether this MC do rock. | |
| Lucky You 71: My Visa maxes out at three thousand bucks. | |
| Random Family 348: Their credit cards were maxed out by all the charges for the medical supplies. | |
| Hard Stuff 79: From the jump, I had been doing everything that needed doing, and I’d maxed out my limited power. |
3. (US) to succeed.
| oral testimony in HDAS II. |
4. to relax.
| ‘Soul on Ice’ 🎵 I spied my man Jaz, maxin’ out with two stone-cold freaks. | |
| Street Talk 2. |
5. (US) to use up.
| On the Bro’d 49: A jacked-up Bowflex [home gym] that he’s rigged up when he maxed out the normal kind. |
6. see sense 8 above .