wax n.2
1. (US black) chewing gum.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘A West Texas Word List’ in DN IV:iii 230: wax, n. Always used for chewing gum. | |
| ‘The Language of the Tennessee Mountain Regions’ in AS XIV:2 92: slab of wax. A piece of chewing gum. | |
 | Fidelity Folks 99: The sales were 240 bottles of soda pop, about two tubs of lemonade, a great lot of candy, wax (chewing gum), cigars etc [DA]. | |
| Black Jargon in White America 86: wax n. 1. chewing gum. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian Guide 18–24 Mar. 28: ‘Killer wax,’ said one Etonian brat [...] who’d just 180’d his way round Neals Yard. |
2. (orig. US, also waxing) a gramophone record; thus cut the wax,put on wax, to record [the wax master discs in which the recording stylus cuts its groove].
| Hand-made Fables 28: [He] seemed to feel it his Destiny to accept every Invitation which promised plenty of Wax on the Floor and something to eat about 1 a.m. | |
| Your Broadway & Mine 20 Nov. [synd. col.] [S]language [...] in use among musicians. [...] To ‘cut the wax’ is to make a phonograph record. | |
| Pal Joey 95: I am going [...] to get one of those recording machines and play the tune and cut a wax of it. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Jan. 7/1: Speaking of Columbia waxings, the new ones cut for February are a killer. | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 83: The gym was whaling. The music was on wax, and it was a mambo. | |
| (con. 1950s) Grease I iv: Vince Fontaine, at Big Fifteen! Spinnin’ the stacks of wax. | |
| Deadmeat 235: The selector flipped some wax onto the turntables. | |
| White Trash 89: Rock glowing behind the turntable as this tricky little geezer spun his wax. |
3. (US) semen; thus drop one’s wax, to ejaculate.
| Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 70: Since there were so few women available to them, when the Chinks finally got a hustler, it was bing, bang, in, out, and their wax was dropped. |
4. (US black) a deposit of dried, shiny vaginal secretions on the buttocks and/or thighs; thus waxed adj.
| (con. 1892) in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 616: W is for waxed cunt as slick as a mole. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 wax (2) Definition: 1. end result of fornication in which the female vaginal juices secrete outside the vagina and onto the posterior end to display a highly glossed, shiny glow that resembles a waxed piece of furniture or floor. |
5. see body wax under body n.
In compounds
(US) a type (of person, situation).
| Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 10 Jan. n.p.: Supposing that I had kept your company [...] I should have been a pretty ball of wax. |
(US black) a record player.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Apr. 7/7: Met a soo to the wax box and let the rhythm soothe his conk. |
(Aus.) a surfer.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Tracks (Aus.) Aug. 3: And as for the dickhead who thinks that westy girls are ‘bushpigs’ we’d like to say ‘get fucked,’ and have a look at your own surfie chicks with their floppy brown tits trotting along behind you waxheads like drooling puppies. So up yours [Moore 1993]. | |
| Tharunka (Kensington, NSW) 16 Mar. 17/1: As well as swimming in the usual old shit, it's appetising to know that we're swimming in arsenic, cadmium, cyanide, lead, nickel and other delicious substances, (yum-mee! - and I always thought that Waxheads had bleached hair because of the sun). | |
| Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Along the entire beach were four waxheads picking the eyes out of what were already perfect waves. | |
| Something Fishy (2006) 99: The beach [...] was [..] deserted by all but the most dedicated wax-heads. |
(US black) a highly talented disk jockey.
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 wax pilot Definition: an extremely talented Disc Jockey who can mix vinyl at incredibly speeds. Example: Oooh! Damn girlfriend! I need to hook wif dat Wax Pilot. |
In phrases
(UK teen) to play a record.
| Eve. Standard (Uniontown, PA) 17 Mar. 35/1: Beatnik English by a Beatnik [...] Make wax — turn on the record player. |
(US drugs) to smoke opium.
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(Aus.) a talkative bore; thus wax-bored, cynical, blasé, wax-bore v., to talk tediously at someone.
| Nambour Chron. (Qld) 6 Sept. 4/7: A lone ‘Digger’ strolled casually along the waterfront at ‘Hell’s Corner’ [...] at the height of a raid. Shrapnel, barrage balloons, and Messerschmitts were falling, and even wax-bored American newspaper correspondents took hasty cover. | |
| Army News (Darwin) 31 July 4/3: These hopes of Canberra are definitely the greatest menace there is. Wax boring is their natural occupation. One of these Churchills, our mess cook, a self-declared philosopher, quoted a Chinese proverb [etc]. | |
| Sun (Sydney) 10 Apr. 1/1: NEW name for ear-bashers: WAX BORERS. | |
| Swan Exp. (Perth) 22 Mayc 7/5: Noticed Johnnie Parks doing quite a bit of wax boring in the dressing room. | |
| Dandenong Jrnl (Vic.) 18 Oct. 6/4: The trophies presented for the night trial were well received and our illustrious president Tig made quite a name for himself as an orator. He’s quite a good wax borer! | |
| Gold in the Streets (1966) 117: Gab, gab, gab; wax-boring old goat. | |
| Holy Smoke 35: Once they’d started makin’ tracks for this Promised Land old Moses has been wax-borin’ ’em about. |
1. (US) a record company [sense 2 + SE works].
| Rockabilly (1963) 84: It was heard by a scout for a local waxworks who tentatively pressed it. |
2. (US gay) anywhere, e.g. a bar, mainly frequented by older, less attractive gay men [derog. use of SE].
| Gay (S)language. |
In phrases
(US) absolutely everything.
| [ | | N.Y. Daily Express 9 Sept. 2/5: Edward McGrath, 45, [...] [was] one of those drunken loafers, without home and without employment [...], and was usually seen half naked and half drunk about a shanty at 64 Centre Street; and used to run errands for the neighbors, being known by the cognomen of ‘the ball of wax.’]. |
| Atlanta Constitution 25 Apr. 4/4: We notice that John Sherman & Co. have opened a real estate office in Washington. Believing in his heart of hearts that he owns this country, we wil[l] be greatly surprised if Mr. Sherman does not attempt to sell out the whole ball of wax under the hammer. | |
| Gettysburg (PA) Compiler 20 Sept. 1/8: ‘That’s what!’ exclaimed the youth, heartily. ‘She’s the best gal in our country, and I’ve had the pick an’ choice of all of ’em. There isn’t one of ’em that wouldn’t marry me quicker’n wink, but this is my choice of the whole ball of wax.’. | |
| Indianapolis Star 12 Nov. 16/8: And the W. C. T. U. proposed to put the kibosh on the whole ball of wax. | |
| Wash. Post 10 Apr. 11: [advert.] Chauffeurs’ Outfits, Overcoats, Suits, Caps New spring things are in for the man who drives your car. The whole ball of wax, so to speak. | |
| N.Y. Herald Trib. 17 July 38/2: [advert] [...] The whole ball o’ wax; Doggone; pushover; Swell!; Corned Willie; happy days! | |
| N.Y. Times 29 May 115: Willie might have hit it out of here and that would have been the whole ball of wax. | |
| Mott the Hoople 194: The whole ball of wax — job, woman, marriage. | |
| Blind Ambition 14: Bob Haldeman ‘coordinating the whole ball of wax’. | |
| Patriot Game (1985) 84: I stick him for the whole ball of wax, the crabmeat cocktail and everything. | |
| Something Fishy (2006) 136: Forget the Cecil Beaton portrait, the whole murky ball of wax spoke for itself. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 202: Loose-moralled little brown-noser with an eye on the big office, the Beemer, the whole ball of wax. |