chest adj.
of a person, puffed-up, self-satisfied.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘The Defence of Strikerville’ in From First To Last (1954) 12: There’s a plug sitting behind the desk, looking as chest as a travelling man. | |
| Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. xi: She put on such a front and chest that she wouldn’t speak to any of the other girls. |
In phrases
(US black) to look for a fight; to fight.
| Third Ear n.p.: get chest v. to look for a fight. | |
| Monster (1994) 156: Our dayroom time was mostly spent going chest: Charlie row against Able row. |
(US black/teen) a statement of one’s masculinity used to deny suggestions that one is weak/effeminate.
| Burn, Killer, Burn! 163: Nobody’s going to call me a queer [...] I’m chest not breast. |