peaches adj.
1. (US teen) attractive, sexually alluring.
‘High School Sl.’ in N.Y. Dispatch 31 May 7: He was regular peaches. | ||
🎵 Come on and listen, / Sure! / To a classical band what’s peaches. | ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’||
Negro Workaday Songs 214: Anna yo’ peaches, but I’s yo man. | ||
(con. 1940s) High Times Hard Times 96: I’m not your ordinary peaches-and-cream band chick [...] I don’t come on as a pretty girl in ruffles who flirts. |
2. (US) fine, excellent.
Skitologues 11: The man who wrote the music of ‘Ev’rything is Peaches down in Georgia’. | ||
Smile A Minute 52: Everything has been peaches. | ||
Awake and Sing! Act III: Everything is peaches and cream. | ||
End as a Man (1952) 158: He’s the sort of good fellow you can get along with if he’s physically afraid of you. Then he’s peaches. | ||
Syndicate (1998) 85: Everything’ll be just peaches. |