| Front | Mae West \may west\ |
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| Back | noun An inflatable, vestlike life preserver. [After Mae West 1892?-1980, American actress known for her sultry stage persona, (from its resemblance to her curvaceous torso).] "Now with all of us bulging out of our Mae Wests, a Richter scale applied to anxiety would have registered eight or a full-scale breakdown." - Robert Schrank, Two Women, Three Men on a Raft, Harvard Business Review, 1 May 1994. |
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