smuggling raisins

English

Adjective

smuggling raisins (not comparable)

1. (slang) Having erect nipples whose outline is visible through one's clothing.
   • 1998, M. C. Bolin, Armageddon, →ISBN, page 120:

     "Shit," Rockhound confessed. "It's Jackie Bisset in The Deep. Smuggling raisins in that wet T-shirt — okay, sue me! But that's a goddamned reason to believe!"

   • 2005, Ayana Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, →ISBN:

     I know that on Friends, Jennifer Aniston is often, in the words of one of my guy friends, “smuggling raisins.”

   • 2016 November 2, Mary Palmer, “Don't make a boob of yourself - cleavage is over, says Vogue”, in Scottish Daily Record:

     For those of us who aren't particularly top heavy - and especially for those who are barely smuggling raisins - good news has come our way.

   • 2017 April 14, Nora Crotty, “People Are Buying Fake Nipples to Put OVER Their Bras”, in Allure Magazine:

     If you missed the memo, visibly smuggling raisins is very much a thing – something I, personally, was made privy to via a passage in Geri Halliwell’s excellent 1999 autobiography If Only, in which the former Spice Girl describes the frigid studio where she was first photographed topless at age 19.