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specs noun- eye-glasses UK, 1807
A shortened form of “spectacles”. - “Where your specs, Rooski?” asked Penny, watching him bent two inches over his tray, trolling for vagrant shreds of fowl in the suety paste already setting like concrete. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 45, 1990
- [A] guy in specs with a rash creepin’ up his neck[.] — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 103, 1997
- a person with poor eyesight and thick glasses US, 1997
- “Say, Specs, why don’t you just pretend you are a doc?” — Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness, p. 31, 1960
- The labels were cruel: Gimp, Limpy-go-fetch, Crip, Lift-one-drag one, etc. Pint, Half-a-man, Peewee, Shorty, Lardass, Pork, Blubber, Belly, Blimp. Nuke-knob, Skinhead, Baldy. Four-eyes, Specs, Coke bottles. — San Francisco Examiner, p. A15, 28 July 1997
- in horse racing, blinkers on a horse US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 59, 1951
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