short eyes
English
editEtymology
editProbably from have eyes for (“have a romantic interest in”) + short (“not tall”).
Noun
editshort eyes (plural short eyes)
- (prison slang) A child molester.
- 1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 23, page 76:
- Kauffmann pointed out that when the prisoners forget their racial and personal differences and, with the connivance of a white guard, kill the white man they all hate because he is a "short eyes" (prison slang for a child molester)
- 2019, Helen Epstein, Joe Papp: An American Life:
- Set in the day room of a house of detention, the play's chain of violent events is set in motion by the introduction of a young white child molester, a “short eyes,” into their group.