Bazoos

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Informal slang for the mouth, often used in the phrase shut your trap ; a crude slang term for a woman's breast
2. A mouth, in casual American slang ; a breast, in crude informal slang
3. Coarse colloquial word for the mouth ; slang term for a female breast

Etymology: "Bazoos" is the plural of "bazoo," a slang noun meaning the mouth, and it is most familiar from the phrase "shoot off your bazoo," meaning to talk too much or boast. The plural is itself a regular English formation, since the singular ends in an "-oo" sound that takes a plain "-s" to form the plural. The singular "bazoo" probably comes from Dutch "bazuin," meaning "trumpet." The idea is a mouth as an instrument that blows out noise, and the Dutch word's own sense gives the picture neatly: a loud-mouthed speaker is, in effect, a trumpet player. The word is first attested in the mid 19th century, when it appears in American English as a slang term for the mouth.

Synonyms: mouth, gob, trap, kisser