boob n.3
1. the female breast, usu. in pl.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1910s) Young Lonigan in Studs Lonigan (1936) 89: Studs didn’t usually pay attention to how girls looked, except [...] to notice their boobs, if they were big enough to bounce. | |
| Sexus (1969) 305: I felt her sloshy boobs joggling me. | |
| Ginger Man (1958) 166: I should have been a priest and have [...] a housekeeper with boobs like pyramids. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 256: She had a nice pair of boobs. | |
| letter 14 Jan. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 275: Some crazy little actress with big boobs. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Godson 127: [O]ut of the bra her boobs looked rounder and juicier than ever. | |
| Skin Tight 31: I want you to look at my boobs. | |
| White Shoes 37: The sheila with the big boobs. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Indep. Real Life 25 July 3: ‘Shake the boobs!’ she whoops, arms outstretched. | |
| ‘Crazy Summer’ 🌐 She released it and moved forward and bent over me and let her boob drop down to a couple of inches above my face. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Gayle 57/2: Betty Boobs n. white woman with large breasts. | |
| Peepshow [ebook] The glossy paper had been shredded across her neck, boobs and pussy. | |
| Nature Girl 7: The man squeezed my boob. | |
| Sun. Times (S. Afr.) 6 Jan. 13: Ventner, wearing the tightest pants teamed with a boob-hugging gold top. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] My boobs were on the modest side. | |
| ‘Could Have Been’ 🎵 Pretty face, small waist, big bump-per. / Tight pum, firm boobs in her jump-per. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 18: ‘Those boobs are too big for you!’ many-rolled Mrs Mangles from the fibro next door would yell. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘Those aren’t boobs, Tony. They’re tits. Big, beautiful tits’. |
2. the chest of a fat male.
| Six Out Seven (1994) 21: Really, he wasn’t much more than terminal chubbs, but had big bouncy boobs and wouldn’t take off his shirt with his homeys. | |
| IOL News (Western Cape) 12 Nov. 🌐 he looks like he has man boobs. |
In derivatives
see -age sfx
In compounds
cosmetic/plastic surgery on the breast, usu. for enlarging with some form of implant.
| Dead Solid Perfect 119: ‘I’m going to get a tit job and buy some clinging outfits, and go on all the talk shows and become the darling of the medical and literary world’. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 259: Half the girls get boob jobs and butt tucks. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 6 June 3: My first step was[...] to have a boob job. | |
| Guardian Sport 19 Feb. 12: Boob job? | |
| Guardian Weekend 17 Mar. 11: On the road girls used to boast about the cubic capacity of their titjobs. ‘I’ve got 840s.’ ‘I’ve got 1220s.’. | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 53: He made [...] a jumpy young skeleton with a boob job as a mommy speed freak. | |
| Peepshow [ebook] The padded bra was great [...] an instant tit-job. | |
 | ‘Magpie’ in ThugLit Sept./Oct. [ebook] ‘Because some starlet wouldn’t get her boob job?’. | |
| Squeeze Me 189: He’d said she should consider a boob job. |
1. a woman’s tight, strapless top, usu. of knitted or elasticated fabric.
| Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 17/1: You wear strapless boob tubes of gold lamé, much-ruched, with your 1950s pirate pants. | |
| My Weekly 2 Aug. 16: Now the rush around to find [...] a variety of tops from waterproofs to ‘boob-tubes’. | |
| Guardian G2 30 Sept. 3: A girl in a boob tube does the Jane Fonda workout. | |
| Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 14: You won’t see me wearing those kinda short-shorts and boobtubes. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 212: She wore a bright pink boob tube and a black leather mini. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| Chopper 4 90: I don’t reply to chesty boob tube blondes. |
3. see also under boob n.2