ecaf

English

Etymology

From face via backslang.

Noun

ecaf (plural ecafs)

1. (back slang) A person's face.
   • 1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:

     He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face).

   • 1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex:

     If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look.

   • 2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, "Honor Amongst Thieves", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money):

     I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе.

Related terms

• eek

 

Anagrams

• CAFE, cafe, café, face