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pizza face

noun

Etymology

From pizza + face. First use appears c. 1964 in the Delaware County Daily Times.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. compounded as pizza face — “pizza + face”

Definitions

  1. A person whose face has blemishes, acne, welts, bruises, colored splotches, etc.

    • Later, when he mouths off to a Broodwarrior (Hey, pizza face, looking for something?), he's brave.
    • After 12 rounds he will be a pizza face—then I will knock him out.

  2. The face of such a person.

    • “You dated Dee?” “Mm.” “Briefly, yeah.” “We dated hard, yep?” “Both you girls dumped him because of his pizza face.” “Ooh, okay.”
    • The kid couldn't walk into a room without slamming into something, after which his pimply pizza face turned tomato red.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of pizza face.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA