chemise lifter

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Based on earlier shirt lifter, a chemise being a feminine style of shirt.

Noun[edit]

chemise lifter (plural chemise lifters)

  1. (British, slang) A lesbian.
    • 2012, Kathy Lette, Mad Cows, page 114:
      Maddy watched the chemise-lifter execute her caricatured saunter out of frame and back to her cell for the 8 a.m. lock-up.

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