"vax" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /væks/ Audio: En-au-vax.ogg [Australia] Forms: vaxxes [plural], vaxes [plural]
enPR: văks Rhymes: -æks Etymology: From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|vaccine|nocap=yes}} clipping of vaccine, {{m|en|vaccination}} vaccination, {{m|en|vaccinate}} vaccinate Head templates: {{en-noun|~|vaxxes|vaxes}} vax (countable and uncountable, plural vaxxes or vaxes)
  1. (slang) Clipping of vaccine. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, uncountable Alternative form of: vaccine
    Sense id: en-vax-en-noun-txEUlSeY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 43 40
  2. (slang) Clipping of vaccination. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang, uncountable Alternative form of: vaccination
    Sense id: en-vax-en-noun-iDIXxS7R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 43 40
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: vaxx Related terms: vaxin

Verb

IPA: /væks/ Audio: En-au-vax.ogg [Australia] Forms: vaxxes [present, singular, third-person], vaxes [present, singular, third-person], vaxxing [participle, present], vaxing [participle, present], vaxxed [participle, past], vaxxed [past], vaxed [participle, past], vaxed [past]
enPR: văks Rhymes: -æks Etymology: From the phonetic spelling of the clipping of vaccine, vaccination or vaccinate. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|vaccine|nocap=yes}} clipping of vaccine, {{m|en|vaccination}} vaccination, {{m|en|vaccinate}} vaccinate Head templates: {{en-verb|vaxxes|vaxxing|vaxxed|past2=vaxed|pres_3sg2=vaxes|pres_ptc2=vaxing}} vax (third-person singular simple present vaxxes or vaxes, present participle vaxxing or vaxing, simple past and past participle vaxxed or vaxed)
  1. (slang) To vaccinate. Tags: slang Related terms: dox, hax, VAXen, VAXherd
    Sense id: en-vax-en-verb-dEiS8nJk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 43 40
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: vaxx

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.