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Mae West
noun- the chest or the breast UK
Rhyming slang, formed from the name of buxom US actress and writer, 1892–1980. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- — Susie Dent, The Language Report, p. 98, 2003
- a life-jacket worn by aircrews UK, 1940
Military. Remains familiar thanks to its popularity with crossword compilers. - in the language of parachuting, a partial inversion of the canopy resulting from a deployment malfunction US, 1958
- Two suspension lines are over my canopy, forming a Mae West. — Donald Duncan, The New Legions, p. 134, 1967
- — Dan Poynter, Parachuting, p. 169, 1978: “The language of parachuting”
- a French-Canadian sugar roll CANADA
- — Maledicta, p. 183, 1979: “Canadian slurs, ethnic and other”
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