balcony n.
1. (Aus.) a large protruding stomach.
Polly Peachum's Jests 8: You are built directly contrary to Act of Parliament, you are but two Stories high, and your Belcony [sic] hangs over your House-of-Office. | ||
Doughman 34: Fat old forty-year Hodgeson [...] the chap with what our Boss calls a front-balcony balloon. |
2. (Aus./US) the female breasts, esp. as thrust up and forward in the brassieres of the 1940s–50s.
CUSS. | et al.||
DSUE (8th edn) 42/2: since late 1940s. | ||
(con. 1960s-70s) Top Fellas 49/2: Girls wore them [i.e. T-shirts] so itsy-bitsy and tight around the balcony that the [stick-on] letters would inevitably [...] fall off. |