vax
/vaks
/noun US informal
A vaccine or vaccination: the flu vax...
- We definitely need better flu vax especially for older patients.
- Did we have a terrible time deciding if John should receive a vax, and if so which one? Horrible time.
- Spreading misinformation about vaccines (even if you're just criticizing vax schedules) might not seem like a big deal, but it is a very big, life-and-death deal.
Origin
1990s: abbreviation.
- skinny-dip
- skinny-dipper
- skinnying
- skinny jeans
- Skinny Liz
- Skinny Lizzie
- skinnymalink
- skinnymalinky
- skinny-rib
- skin (one's) teeth
- skin packaging
- skin pass
- skin patch
- skin-pop
- skin-popper
- skin potential
- skin preserver
- skin print
- skin protection factor
- skin reaction
- skin resistance
- skin-scraper
- skin search
- skins game
- skin show