east and west n.1
1. the male chest.
Dagonet Ditties 126: In my ‘East and West’ Dan Cupid / Shot a shaft and let it there. | ‘Tottie’,
2. a vest [note SE vest is an undergarment; SAmE vest is a waistcoat].
Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Oct. 4/8: But not content with taking one, / Another those poachers pinched, / And swift (in the words of the slangful gun) / My ‘East and West’ ‘half-inched’. | ||
Le Slang. | ||
Und. Speaks 35/2: East and West, a vest. | ||
AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: east and west. The vest (Origin uncertain, but probably English.) Probably American. The vest is an undergarment in English. | ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in||
Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn). | ||
Up the Frog. | ||
Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
3. (also east west) the female breast.
Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 118: Elsewhere Aylwin lists a few more ‘Vulgarities’: [...] words for breasts (brace and bits, east and west, Jersey City, thousand pities, towns and cities, fainting fits). | ||
Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 50: east west breast. |