Usually means: Persuade gently with careful encouragement.
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  1. coax: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coax, coax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coax, coax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coax: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coax, coax: Wordnik
  7. coax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coax: Wiktionary
  9. coax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coax: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. coax: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coax: Rhymezone
  19. coax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. coax: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
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Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. coax: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. coax: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. coax: Encyclopedia

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  3. coax: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coax: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See coaxed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
verb:  (transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
verb:  (transitive) To carefully manipulate (someone or something) into a particular desired state, situation or position.
noun:  (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
noun:  Short for coaxial cable. [(electronics, telecommunications) A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used to carry high frequency signals such as TV.]
adjective:  Clipping of coaxial. [(geometry) Having a common central axis]

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