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[Baker, John]

It’s a popular term in certain venues.  Urban Dictionary has it from September 17, 2005, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sideboob:

A view of the female breast seen from a side; generally under loosely-fitting clothes. Very titillating (pun intended) and sexual without showing any overt nudity.

There is so much sideboob at Los Angeles awards shows!

My brother's g/f's sideboob totally distracted me from my own g/f.


Almost all published uses postdate the Urban Dictionary posting, but NewsBank has an outlier example from the Sunday Times, January 30, 1994, in an article discussing token “babe” roles in movies and relying in part on an interview with the actor Mike Myers:

He [sc. Myers] thinks the American actress Heather Locklear is a babe.  So is his mother-in-law, so is Farrah Fawcett she was the first woman he saw on a poster where he could see what he refers to as “side boob”.


I’m not sure what poster Myers was referring to; the famous poster of Fawcett in a red swimsuit emphasizes her breasts but does not contain sideboob, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett_red_swimsuit_poster.  As for Myers’s mother-in-law, that was Linda Richman, who was also the source of an affectionate parody character of the same name that Myers had created for Saturday Night Live.  Richman is not otherwise particularly famous, although she is a public speaker and author.


John Baker

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