Old-school slang for eyes. The word belongs to a rich tradition of colourful underworld and thieves' cant vocabulary that flourished in 17th- and 18th-century Britain, though it occasionally pops up in fiction, poetry, or theatrical dialogue even today. Calling someone's eyes their glimms conjures a sense of their gleam or glimmer — the word is evocative in a way clinical alternatives aren't. Writers going for a vintage, noir, or theatrical register sometimes reach for it.
The old detective fixed his steel-grey glimms on the suspect and waited without saying a word.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) eyes.
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