(music) A broad musical and artistic movement originating in the mid-1970s in New York City, typified by experimentation and performance art.

(transitive) To try, in public, to attract people into a business establishment.

plural of waveful

(chiefly poetic) Full of or abounding in waves

The amount (of liquid) contained in a wave, or the amount (of material) able to be held by a wave

(US, historical) Initialism of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.

(US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).

With variable frequency; in large amounts spaced out.

Applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics.

simple past tense and past participle of blow-wave