Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. boxing) the nose.

1908		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 17: Pipe the beezer on him — he looks like a pelican.
1912		H.G. van Campen ‘Our Theatrical Boarding House’ in L.A. Herald 26 Nov. 6/5: ‘An’ ef a gelmun’s beezer ain’t the shade of a corps’s. Is they any disgrace to bein’ one of the boys?’.
1913–14		Van Loan ‘Out of His Class’ in Taking the Count 183: Don’t be turnin’ up that busted beezer of yours so proud.
1925		J. Tully Beggars of Life 124: I’ll bust ye in the beezer, that’s what I’ll do.
1934		H. Roth Call It Sleep (1977) 268: Yea, an’ a bust onna beezer!
1944		D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 101: Brandy Bottle Bates is a big, black-looking guy, with a large beezer.
1958		R. Prather Scrambled Yeggs 83: Me with him on the beezer.
1960		Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 42: She had an ink spot on her nose [...] it is virtually impossible to write a novel of suspense without getting a certain amount of ink on the beezer.
1960		(con. 1950-1960) R.A. Freeman Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 8: Beezer – the nose; head; pumpkin; cabbage; melon, etc.
1985		(con. 1968) D.A. Dye Citadel (1989) 74: Fucking piece of rock must have gotten you right on the Goddam beezer.

2. the head.

1915		G. Bronson-Howard God’s Man 206: I’d bend a paving stone over his beezer.
1927		M. West Drag (1997) III i: Listen, Bargain, if you don’t want me to clean out this joint, lay off of Civic Virtue before I knock you loose from that flat beezer of yours.
1933		G. Milburn No More Trumpets 27: This yard dick sticks his beezer around trying to see where I went.

3. the face, the mouth.

1926		N. Fleischer in Ring Nov. 10: beezer, mug, phiz—The face.
1930		J. Lait Gangster Girl 60: How’d you like a swell bust in the beezer?
1949		‘F. Bonnamy’ Blood and Thirsty (1952) 238: Got her, b’God! Smack in the beezer.
1958		R.F. Bauerle ‘Misc.’ in AS XXXIII:1 78: beezer, n. The face.
1961		(con. 1920s) J. Sparks Burglar to the Nobility 75: The screw [...] had been kind enough to let us have these few moments of leave-taking without him sticking his beezer right in between us.
1970		B. Naughton Alfie Darling 201: ‘I’ll finish you off,’ I said, ‘if you open your great ugly beezer once more.’.
1977		Maledicta 1 (Summer) 43: What a puss! What a beezer! what a mug!