lung n.
1. in pl., a powerfully-voiced person.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. Eng. Lang. (1785) n.p.: Lungs. Formerly a cant term denoting a large and strong-voiced man. |
2. (orig. US, also lungers) in pl., the female breasts; occas. in sing., thus lungy adj., having large breasts.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | joke cited in Rationale of the Dirty Joke (1972) I 75: Teacher has a sweater like that, and every time she bends down, her lungs fall out. | |
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| Semi-Tough 19: She obviously has a whole bunch of dandy lungs underneath a silk blouse. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Glass Canoe (1982) 136: I was there when this big girl took a fancy to him [...] She stepped out in front of him and bumped his chest with one enormous lung. | |
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 132: Chichi (breasts, boobies, grapefruits, headlights, lungs). | |
| Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 35: Lungers Female breasts. | |
| Down by the River 127: [M]agazines whose covers almost exclusively featured women with extralarge lungs. | |
| Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] ‘You’ve sure got a good set of lungs on you, Roxy. I mean . . . noisewise’. | |
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3. (US) constr. with the, tuberculosis.
| Teen-Age Gangs 154: ‘I got the lungs.’ He coughed delicately. |
4. (drugs) a form of pipe used for smoking cannabis.
| Marijuana Gloss. 🌐 lung [uk] – 2 litre plastic bottle with a poly-bag attached to the bottom. When the bag is pulled out of the bottle the smoke fills it up. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US campus) a lump of phlegm.
| Campus Sl. Mar. 7: lung biscuit – globule of spit; phelgm. |
the mouth.
| Brighton Beach Loafer n.p.: My tar, if you don’t close your lung-box I shall run you in [B&L]. | |
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| Hoodlums (2021) 28: Kirk felt his lungbox sob, he wiped his face. |
(Aus./N.Z.) a cigarette.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 70/2: lungbuster cigarette. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Lung buster. Cigarette. | |
| oddville.homestead.com 🌐 These cigaretts [sic] are highly addictive and are highly expensive. Vykkers Scientists say that 1 out of every 5 won’t live after smoking thier [sic] first one. Slogan: ‘Lungbuster Cigs, who wants to grow old anyway?’. | |
| Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] She sucked on her lung buster and blew smoke rings towards him. |
(US black) a cigarette.
| Und. Sl. | |
| ‘Smokers’ Sl.’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 335/2: A cigarette is a [...] lung-duster. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Blood Posse 29: He pulled a crumpled pack of lung-dusters from his pocket. |
(US) the female breasts, esp. when small.
| Rhubarb 94: After seeing her on the stage for the first time he [...] wrote ‘What a pair of lung warts!’. | |
| After Hours 45: Bouncin’ them lung-warts all over my face. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 19: lung warts euph. Stits (qv); fried eggs. See Parisian breasts. |