noun

• (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
  "What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax."
• (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
• (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
  "He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax."

verb

• (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
  "waxed silk"

verb

• (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
• (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
• (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
• (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
  ""I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded...."

verb

• (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
  "Holonym: wax and wane"
• (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
  "to wax poetic"
• (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
• (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.