Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chassis n.

also chassy
[automobile imagery]
(US)

1. the female figure.

[UK]DeSylva & Meyer [perf. Ella Shields] If You Knew Susie 🎵 There's none so classy as this fair Lassie / Oh, Oh Holy Moses what a chassis.
J.T. Farrell in Girls at the Sphinx (1959) 157: These dames whose mugs and chassis were in the paper.
M. Bittner ‘No Greater Love’ in Harlem Stories May 🌐 Baby Lou had a chassis. Baby Lou was eighteen.
[US](con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 658: There’s smouldering passion in every inch of that dame’s chassis.
[UK]W. Cunliffe [perf. Florrie Forde] Fair, fat and forty 🎵 My chassis may be bulky but the steering gear’s okay.
[US]‘Bill O. Lading’ You Chirped a Chinful!! n.p.: Light Chassis: Well built girl.
[US]E. Wilson 7 Apr. [synd. col.] Gerrude Niesen, the lassie with the sassy chassis.
[US]S.J. Perelman ‘Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl’ in Keep It Crisp 91: A show girl with a real nifty chassis.
[US]D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 Mar. 13: Her classy little chassis.
[US](con. 1930s) R. Wright Lawd Today 103: The girl swung around so that the flesh on her oversized buttocks trembled. [...] ‘That’s a Packard Chassis,’ said Jake.
[SA]B. Simon ‘Score Me the Ages’ Born in the RSA (1997) 166: She had a tit chassis hey.
[UK]A. Warner Sopranos 146: Those classy chassis.
[US]Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 chassy n. [...] a very pretty female. A beautiful girl. ‘Check out that chassy over there!’.
[US](con. WWII) R. Mooney Father of the Man Prologue: He went out on skirt patrol pretty regular while we were stationed at Stover. Just couldn’t resist the light chassis.

2. the male body.

[US]M. West Babe Gordon (1934) 24: What a chassis you got, Bearcat!
[UK]B. Bennett ‘The Eskimos’ in Billy Bennett’s Fifth Budget 28: But before he meets his lassie he must needs Springclean his chassy.
[UK]Strand Mag. CIV 52: Jerry never knew just what it was that knocked his head loose from the rest of his chassis.
[US]J. Thompson ‘Forever After’ in Fireworks (1988) 52: Well, I guess I’ll go splash the chassis.

In phrases

classy chassis (n.) [classy adj.]

(US) the body of a good-looking, well-built woman.

[UK]Bezzerides & Wald They Drive By Night [film script] paul fabrini (referring to Cassie): Nice chassis, huh, Joe? joe: Classy chassis. cassie: Yeah, and it all belongs to me.
[US]Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
www.cduniverse.com 🌐 Joy Damon, aka ‘The Happy Little Lassie with the Classy Chassis’.