bazooms
Bazooms is a playful, slightly dated slang term for breasts, typically used in a comic or non-threatening register.
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Bazooms is a playful, slightly dated slang term for breasts, typically used in a comic or non-threatening register. It falls into the category of burlesque-era American slang — boisterous and cartoonish rather than clinical or vulgar. The word has appeared in stand-up comedy, 1950s-70s American humour, and continues to crop up in comedy contexts where a non-offensive, faintly absurd breast euphemism is required.
The film's humour was firmly in the bazooms-and-pratfalls school of 1970s comedy.
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A playful, slightly old-fashioned slang term for breasts. Bazooms carries a comic, cartoonish quality — it is far from clinical and far from aggressively crude. Associated with a certain mid-20th century American humor register, the kind found in vaudeville, sitcoms, and throwback comedy. Used with more humor than lewdness in most contemporary contexts, if it is used at all. The word's cartoonish quality means it signals the speaker's own self-awareness — using bazooms almost always comes with an implicit wink.
The old comedy script was full of dated gags about bazooms that wouldn't make it past a modern writers' room.
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: (slang) breasts.
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