breezer n.1
1. (US) an open-topped car.
![]() | San Bernadino Co. Sun (CA) 25 Mar. 41/1: Shed — a closed car. Front room — a sedan [...] Breezer — an open car. | |
![]() | Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 36: breezer.–An open automobile, such as a roadster or touring car. In general use by automobile thieves. | |
![]() | DAUL 34/1: Breezer. An open automobile. | et al.
2. (Aus.) the act of breaking wind.
![]() | Eye of the Storm 380: [He] lets breezers, as if he didn’t know there was anybody else in the room. | |
![]() | Lingo 88: Flatulence – farting – is well represented, too. Various terms are used for the act itself, including opening the sandwich box, cutting the cheese, dropping one, dropping your guts, letting off a breezer, among others even more vulgar. |
In phrases
(Aus.) from nose to tail.
![]() | Golden Summers (1986) 133: So I [...] catches my bird, gives him two blows, from his sneezer to his breezer [AND]. | |
![]() | Aussie (Sydney) 15 Apr. 17: ‘I went from the sneezer to the breezer in three chops up the neck and down the whipping side in a couple more.’ That is to say, he did one side of a sheep in three blows of the shears, then shore the neck and the last side in a couple more. | |
![]() | J. Dingwall Sun. Too Far Away 88: I hope you’ve got clean hands doctor – you’ve cut him from the sneezer to the breezer. | |
![]() | 🎵 His long blow is a certain pleaser, / CLIP – from the breezer to the sneezer. | ‘Jacky Howe, the Warwick Gun’|
![]() | (ref. to 1905) nzedge.com 🌐 In 1905 Australian shearer Jim Powers started using long strokes to clip wool. He described it as ‘going right from the breezer to the sneezer’. |