Meanings
- pluralplural onlyA style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
It used to be trucker hats and Ray-Bans, followed by Kanye glasses and Day-Glo jewelry.
2010, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1812 more examples
Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses.
2012, Vice Magazine, Dos & Don'ts: 2013 Daily Calendar, Chronicle Books, →ISBNMy freshman year, I cheered beside a guy with a huge Afro and Kanye glasses and a guy in a toga.
2013, Alyssa Newton, "Football season is here again Jag Fans", The Vanguard (University of South Alabama), Volume 53, Number 3, 12 August 2013, page 17Synonyms: shutter shades
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
Origin
This style of sunglasses, which first became popular in the 1980s, was re-popularized in the early 2010s by American rapper Kanye West.
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Kanye glasses. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kanye%20glasses
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