BREASTS

balcony noun, US, 1964
• Polly’s balcony might not be something to
inflame the pimple-faced readers of Playboy,
but it had exactly what a grown man
wanted[.] —Max Shulman, Anyone Got a
Match? 1964

bee stings noun, US, 1964
small female breasts
• —Michael Dalton Johnson, Talking Trash
with Redd Foxx 1994

British Standard Handful noun, UK, 1977
the average female breast
A play on standards established by the British
Standards Institute.
• A third nurse complained that Dr. Galea, a
married man, squeezed one of her breasts
and told her: “You are the three British
standard handfuls.” — The Mirror 25th May
1999

cupcakes noun, US, 2001
• “Yeah, well, nice cupcakes!” he said, eyes
locked onto the woman’s breasts. —Kregg
Jorgenson, Very Crazy G.I. 2001

fun bags noun, US, 1965
• Every time her instructor let himself be
thrown, he did a number on her fun bags
you wouldn’t believe. —Jack W. Thomas,
Heavy Number 1976

hooters noun, US, 1972
• She thrust out her chest when she said it,
and he had to admit she had pretty nice
hooters. —Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s
Week 1993

lungs noun, US, 1951
• We decided that if she had gone to TCU,
she would have come from Floydada with
big lungs and skinny calves and a lot of
chewing gum. —Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough
1972

sweater puppies noun, US, 1994
• In the press tent, free copies of The
Generation X Field Guide and Lexicon are
available for those who don’t already know
that sweater puppies are breasts[.]
— Playboy November, 1997