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crater face

crater face

9.8
A face with deep scars or small holes caused by severe acne
  • noun
  • /ˈkreɪtər feɪs/
  • Slang
translation icon : cara con cicatrices
  • She used special foundation to cover the scars on her crater face.

Examples

  • He felt self-conscious about his crater face and often avoided photos.

  • Kids at school cruelly teased him, calling him crater face because of his acne.

  • She felt insecure about her crater face.

  • Many teenagers suffer from crater faces due to acne.

  • He felt self-conscious about his crater face and often avoided photos.

  • Kids at school cruelly teased him, calling him crater face because of his acne.

  • Many teenagers suffer from crater faces due to acne.

Antonyms

smooth-skinned
1 3.5

Having skin or a surface that is even and without bumps

Surface Forms

crater face singular
crater faces plural

Morphology

crater + face

The compound 'crater face' directly combines 'crater' (bowl-shaped depression) and 'face' to mean a face with crater-like depressions or pockmarks; a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer this literal/metaphorical description. The noun+noun compositional pattern and the obvious visual metaphor make the meaning readily derivable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Crater face compares a face to the moon, which has many deep craters that look like holes in the surface. So the strong image of those holes came to mean 'a face marked by deep scars or pockmarks', often from severe acne.