Meanings
plural dirty pillows
- slanggenerally pluralA breast, especially a woman's breast.
Sorry, love. I got stuck in your dirty pillows.
1999, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (film)2 more examples
"I can see your dirtypillows. Everyone will. They'll be looking at your body. The Book says—" "Those are my breasts, Momma. Every woman has them."
1974, Stephen King, Carrie, New York: New American Library, →ISBN, page 98Boobs, 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.
2010, Sarah Harvey, Plastic, Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, pages 1–2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, pillow.
Origin
Coined as "dirtypillows" by Stephen King in the novel Carrie (1974); see citation below.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
dirty pillow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirty%20pillow
“dirty pillow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirty%20pillow. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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