bass and flinders n.
(Aus.) windows.
‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxii 6/1: bass and flinder: Window. | ||
Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 18: Bass and Flinders Windows. | ||
Lingo 89: Names of prominent, and even not so prominent, people, and even department stores, have always proved fertile sources of Australian rhyming slang, such as bass and flinders winders (windows); captain cook look, as in take a captain cook at that, also used in Cockney rhyming slang. |