Kanye glasses en · NOUN
Etymology
This style of sunglasses, which first became popular in the 1980s, was re-popularized in the early 2010s by American rapper Kanye West.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses.
2012, Vice Magazine, Dos & Don'ts: 2013 Daily Calendar, Chronicle Books, →ISBN:It used to be trucker hats and Ray-Bans, followed by Kanye glasses and Day-Glo jewelry.
2010, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 181:My freshman year, I cheered beside a guy with a huge Afro and Kanye glasses and a guy in a toga.
2013, Alyssa Newton, "Football season is here again Jag Fans", The Vanguard (University of South Alabama), Volume 53, Number 3, 12 August 2013, page 17