crayon eater
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crayon, eater.
Example Sentences
- "At least one thread devolved into a bunch of crayon-eaters arguing over whether a pistol would really “burn like that”, whether a Glock or an XD would burn harder or melt faster."
- "We all know at least one Marine who scored 99 on the ASVAB, and we know this because he will typically proclaim it loudly, and often. Usually to try to set himself apart from the horde of ASVAB waivers and Crayon eaters in the Corps — the orange ones taste the best. All joking aside, there’s a lot of smart Marines out there, or at least, smartass Marines."
- "His computer battery had died. As I glanced over my shoulder to see that it was working again, and I said to myself, "Fucking crayon eater.""
- "The department concluded its report with a suggested treatment for crayon eaters."
- "I was seeing colors... greens (forest greens, light greens, and other subtle shades of green), blues, gold, silver, and even--I know you think I'm making this up--even that super-flourescent^([sic]) pink. I can't help myself--I'm a crayon eater."
- "When they discovered he had eaten the crayons that his mother had placed in his lunch box, he was stripped of the family genius title that very day. […] If he had failed, that would mean being in the same class with his brother, the smart one, the crayon eater."
Etymology
From a tendency in small children and people with developmental disabilities to eat or crave objects that are not food. Associated from the early 2010s with members of the United States Marine Corps, and adopted as a self-deprecating meme.