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General Slang
lills / luppers
· noun · polari
Polari for hands ('lills') and fingers ('luppers').
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Definitions
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Hands. Part of the head-to-toe Polari body lexicon. If you knew the words you could clock someone's mannerisms, jewellery or wandering grip without a single straight person at the bar catching on.
“Vada her lills, covered in rings and not one of them a wedding band.”
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Fingers, specifically ('luppers'). Usually paired with lills the way 'hands and fingers' go together. Comes up describing gestures, nail varnish, or someone getting handsy.
“Keep your luppers to yourself, dear, this one's not for sale.”
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lills / luppers In A Sentence
Vada her lills, covered in rings and not one of them a wedding band.
Keep your luppers to yourself, dear, this one's not for sale.
Origin & Usage
Polari, the secret cant of British gay men, drag performers and theatre folk that peaked from the 1930s to the 1960s. 'Lills' meaning hands and 'luppers' meaning fingers sit alongside the body vocabulary that let speakers gossip about anyone in plain sight.
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