blinds n.
1. (US tramp) the false door at the end of carriages; thus places between the carriages where a tramp can hide while riding on a passenger train.
![]() | Stealing Through Life 7: On the trains we saw no ‘blinds,’ no ‘trucks,’ no steps by which we could climb to the car tops. | |
![]() | Hobo’s Hornbook 247: So I’m on the blinds of the Flying Crow / And I’m going to ride her through. | ‘A Hard Road to Ride’ in|
![]() | (con. 1950-1960) Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 12: Blinds – the false doors at the ends of a baggage car. |
2. (US gay) a foreskin.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 222/3: . | |
![]() | (S)language 5: blinds—foreskin. | |
![]() | Alyson Almanac 60/2: blinds. The foreskin on an uncircumcised penis [Simes:DLSS]. |
In phrases
see under draw v.4