Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US black) the eyes.

1819		P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 16: [T]he Lower Orders of Society [...] roost well without any coaxing of laudanum to close their shutters.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 6/1: The recent little ‘scrap’ in London, when Sir George Chetwynd put up one of the noble ‘shutters’ of the Earl of Lonsdale, reminds us that pugilism is not quite a lost art among our blessed old nobility.
1944		‘Jiver’s Bible’ in D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive.
1999		D. Lypchuk ‘A dirty little story’ in eye mag. 8 July 🌐 Then one night their winklers met across the room. He told her, ‘You have really beautiful shutters.’.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 shutters Definition: a person’s eyes Example: Yo I busted that fool right in his shutters.

2. in fig. use, the end, finality.

1949

H.C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 21: Snowy Fisher comes out of the window, all right. [...] But it’s shutters for Pap.

3. the eyelids.

1992

M. Frayn Now You Know 49: She’s looking at her watch, then yawning and dropping the old sky-blue shutters for a moment.