A fork of Rural Dictionary
sunglasses (always used in the plural)
They had rather tacky looking shades on the shelf.
Sunglasses, a tanned set of glass (or plastic) sheets, fitted in a structure that rests on your ears and nose, shielding your eyes from bright light. Often worn by people in summer times.
"That guy has a nice set of shades"
A racial slur, coined by racial anthropologist Dr. Andrew H. Eberle after his time at Yale, when upon auditioning for a predominately African American acapella group of the name Shades, did not give him a call back. The term was created on the spot out of Dr. Eberle's frustration, and came to be used to refer to any member of the African American race.
Look at those shades posted up on the corner
a local slang term for the cops. not to be confused with sunglasses
"oh bollocks here come the shades drop the weapon and run"