knockers

knockers
   a woman's breasts
   Again from the shape of a door knocker and its movement in a vertical plane when activated:
    I could see a roomful of libidinous Japanese with their mouths open, transfixed by a wobbling pair of Russian knockers. (Theroux, 1988)

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  • knockers —    Cornish tin miners believed there were helpful spirits in the mines, who could be heard hammering at places where there was a good lode of ore; they might also knock as a warning of danger, for instance before a rock fall. There were several… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

  • knockers — noun A womans breasts …   Wiktionary

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  • knockers — n pl 1. female breasts. A widespread usage which seems to have arisen as recently as the 1940s. It has been suggested, but not convincingly demonstrated, that the word comes from norks and was first coined in Australia, whence it spread to the… …   Contemporary slang

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  • knockers — Noun. Breasts. Possibly named due to the nature of their movements during activity …   English slang and colloquialisms

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