windows n.1
1. the eyes.
![]() | N.Y. Clipper 21 Jan. 3/2: A ranting preacher [...] heard no other conversation [...] but ‘bread basket,’ ‘peeper,’ ‘first knock down,’ ‘stinger in the eye,’ ‘closed his window,’ &c . | |
![]() | Cheshire Obs. 18 Aug. 8/3: Grasshopper [...] got on Panfish’s wuindows completely lettin’ down de blinds. | |
![]() | Sl. Dict. | |
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 96: Windows, the eyes. | |
![]() | More Ex-Tank Tales 38: The most extraordinary pair of blue-gray windows I ever saw in a man’s head. | |
![]() | Und. and Prison Sl. | |
![]() | Airtight Willie and Me 117: I’m gonna blow out your windows, Pig, for kicks, if you keep pinning me. |
2. (US) spectacles.
![]() | Life In Sing Sing 254: Windows. Spectacles. | |
![]() | TAD Lex. (1993) 88: ‘Now take it from me,’ whispered the gent with the windows. | in Zwilling|
![]() | Keys to Crookdom 422: Windows. Eyeglasses, googs. | |
![]() | Poor Man’s Orange 181: Why don’t you take off them black windows? | |
![]() | Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 52: windows – Eye glasses. |