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pavement pizza en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, countable, humorous, slang, uncountable) A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.
   • I think I'm about to deliver a pavement pizza.
   • 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.
   • Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark. 2004, Andrew Holmes, Matthew Reeves, Pains on Trains: A Commuter′s Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions, page 207:
   • 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. 2009, Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man: A Yorkshireman's Tale, page 77:
2. (countable, humorous, slang, uncountable) The badly damaged bodily remains of a person who has jumped or fallen from a great height.
   • Fortunately, technology is in place to slow your descent before you become pavement-pizza. 2011, Bob Sehlinger, The Unofficial Guide to Britain′s Best Days Out, Theme Parks and Attractions, page 133:
   • 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. 2008, Christopher Nosnibor, The Plagiarist, page 107:
   • 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. 1998, Eileen Dreyer, Brain Dead, page 287:
3. (US, countable, humorous, slang, uncountable) Roadkill.
   • Had I been in an SUV, the kid would have been pavement pizza. 2004 September 13, Editorial Opinion, Philadelphia Daily News (PA):
   • If that schnauzer winds up pavement pizza, they′d love reporting me, they′d be checking my tires for fur in no time. 2005, Paul Frederick Kluge, Final Exam, page 21:
   • That's so the little critters can go there and eat their little hearts out instead of getting them smashed out on the road as a part of a pavement pizza. 1995, Margaret Lawrence, “Cousin Cassie′s Cookin′”, in Annette J. Bruce, J. Stephen Brooks, editors, Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers, page 43:

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Synonyms

vomit · puke · throw-up · ralph · vomitus · liquid laugh · purging · road pizza · yak · spew · bait · sick · boke · chunder · throwup · barf · honk · Technicolor yawn · road pizza · sprog · upchuck · boot · multicolour yawn · pavement pizza