"dirty pillow" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Coined as "dirtypillows" by Stephen King in the novel Carrie (1974); see citation below. Head templates: {{en-noun}} dirty pillow (plural dirty pillows) Forms: dirty pillows [plural]
  1. (slang, generally plural) A breast, especially a woman's breast. Tags: slang
    Sense id: dirty_pillow-en-noun-Hq~ZkpEd
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, pillow.
    Sense id: dirty_pillow-en-noun-42Q5XvOs Synonyms: breasts

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1999, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (film)",
          "text": "Sorry, love. I got stuck in your dirty pillows."
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          "ref": "2010, Sarah Harvey, Plastic, Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, pages 1–2",
          "text": "Boobs, bazongas, bazookas, big berthas, blouse bunnies, boulders, buds, cannons, chubbies, coconuts, the devil's dumplings, dirty pillows, flesh melons, fun bags … Number of words I know for breasts: one hundred and thirty-eight, and counting.",
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