WAVE

See also: wave and -wave

English

Noun

WAVE (plural WAVES)

1. (US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:

     [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.