WAVE

See also: wave

English

Noun

WAVE (plural WAVES)

  1. (US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
    • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
      [H]e read the faded sticker on the crystal of the door, “A slip of the lip can sink a ship.” Below a WAVE held her finger to lips that had turned tan.
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