瓶びん底ぞこメガネ

also: ビンぞこメガネ · びんぞこめがね

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Meanings

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noun

thick glasses; bottle-bottom glasses

jocular, humorousidiomatic expression

Jocular, idiomatic term for glasses with very thick lenses, likening them to the bottom of a bottle. Often used humorously or self-deprecatingly.

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When I was a kid, I was often teased about my bottle-bottom glasses.

眼鏡めがね
General term for glasses; 瓶底メガネ specifically refers to thick, bottle-bottom-like lenses in a humorous way.
度どが強つよい
Describes strong prescription lenses; 瓶底メガネ is a more vivid, slangy expression for the resulting thick glasses.

Compound of 瓶底 (binzoko, 'bottle bottom') and メガネ (megane, 'glasses'), from the resemblance of thick convex lenses to the bottom of a glass bottle.