dirty pillow

noun

A breast, especially a woman's breast.

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noundirty pillow (plural dirty pillows)

plural dirty pillows

  1. 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)
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    "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 98

    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.

    2010, Sarah Harvey, Plastic, Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, pages 1–2
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, pillow.

    the patient did not wake, but tossed about on the dirty pillow, and grew hotter every moment.

    1863 August, “Way down in Dixie”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 62, page 144

    Synonyms: breasts

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nounUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, pillow.

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Coined as "dirtypillows" by Stephen King in the novel Carrie (1974); see citation below.

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dirty pillow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirty%20pillow

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“dirty pillow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirty%20pillow. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dirty pillow,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirty%20pillow.

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