chest, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chest n.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

chest-plaster (n.) [it ‘bandages’ the sometimes less than spotless shirt front]

a flat cravat that covers the shirt front between the coat and the throat.

1909

J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 72/1: Chest Plaster [...] a heart-shaped shirt-front worn with a very open dress waistcoat, and starched almost into a cuirass.

chest-pounder (n.) [the ritual tapping of the chest that accompanies statements of Mea culpa]

(US) a Roman Catholic.

1930

J.A. Russell ‘Colgate University Sl.’ in AS V:3 238: Chest-pounder: a Roman Catholic. ‘Our cook is a chest-pounder.’ .

chest-puppy (n.) [puppies n. (3)]

(Aus.) the female breast.

1997

G. Fuller in Globe (Melbourne) No. 5 May 🌐 Thus in this altar to chest puppy perfection each tit can be read as a clone dropping off the mother tit or as a discarded body bit that doesn’t make the grade.