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Kanye glasses

Kanye glasses noun: a style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.

kanye glasses: a style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses
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Noun

Kanye glasses pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A 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 181
    • Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses.2012, Vice Magazine, Dos & Don'ts: 2013 Daily Calendar, Chronicle Books, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    shutter shades

Synonyms of Kanye glasses

Origin of Kanye glasses

This style of sunglasses, which first became popular in the 1980s, was re-popularized in the early 2010s by American rapper Kanye West.

Questions about Kanye glasses

What does Kanye glasses mean?
Kanye glasses means a style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
What part of speech is Kanye glasses?
Kanye glasses is a noun.

Words near Kanye glasses in the dictionary

  1. kanya tree
  2. Kanyaka
  3. Kanyakumari
  4. Kanyapella
  5. Kanye
  6. Kanye glasses
  7. Kanye'd
  8. Kanyed
  9. Kanyeing
  10. Kanyen'kéha
  11. Kanyes

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