What is Shades?
1.
Sun glasses but it sounds cooler.
Person 1; Nice shades
Person 2; Damm straight
2.
A racial slur, coined by racial anthropologist Dr. Andrew H. Eberle after his time at Yale, when upon auditioning for a predominately African American acapella group of the name Shades, did not give him a call back. The term was created on the spot out of Dr. Eberle's frustration, and came to be used to refer to any member of the African American race.
Look at those shades posted up on the corner
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3.
Sunglasses, a tanned set of glass (or plastic) sheets, fitted in a structure that rests on your ears and nose, shielding your eyes from bright light.
Often worn by people in summer times.
"That guy has a nice set of shades"
4.
A Limerick word for the Gardai
boys theres Da Shades
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5.
Insulting name for police in Limerick, Ireland
I committed a crime so I had to hide from the shades
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6.
Irish gypsie saying the Irish Gardi. (The police) Originating from an Irish town in County Galway known as Tuam where the Irish gypsie are widly spread
"Feck! The shades!" eg. If people are doing thing illegal and they spot the gardi coming.
7.
a local slang term for the cops. not to be confused with sunglasses
"oh bollocks here come the shades drop the weapon and run"
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