flying purple people eater
nounEtymology
From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a "flying purple people eater".
Definitions
A fanciful monster.
- He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. "Some gooks are in there!"
- I used to be afraid to go to bed at night — the name was "one-eyed, one-eared flying purple people-eater."
- "Something ate the middle." / "I don't suppose that something was the flying purple people eater?" Chylak said. / He knew this scenario well: next Elliott would demand that his Happy Days night-light be left on all night
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for flying purple people eater. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA