pavement pizza
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
Australian usage; British usage; Countable; Humorous; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I think I'm about to deliver a pavement pizza."
- "Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark."
- "I was so relieved at the end of the journey that if I had had anything left to throw up I would have made it a hat trick of pavement pizzas."
- "2010, Michael Powell, Matt Forbeck, Forbidden Knowledge College: 101 Things Not Every Student Should Know How To Do, Adams Media, UK, page 84, This will make you gag and cough; keep going until your stomach starts heaving. Open your throat as if you were is about to swallow a sword; this sends another signal to your brain that a pavement pizza [is] about to be delivered."
- "She would have been pavement pizza if she hadn′t been strapped in. As it was, she was hanging from the shoulder strap like a parachutist who hit a tree."
- "He′d even heard of there having been a jumper once. Ended up as pavement-pizza, but astoundingly still alive, now simply existing in a semi-vegetable state, a crippled slobbering mess, physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his sorry life."
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Humorous
- Slang
- Uncountable
- American usage