pavement pizza
- noun
- Slang
:
pizza de la acera
- There's some pavement pizza outside the nightclub—watch your step!
Examples
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He tried not to look at the pavement pizza on his morning run.
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After the carnival, the street was dotted with pavement pizza and confetti.
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Look at that pavement pizza over there!
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I can't believe you ate that pavement pizza.
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He couldn't help but laugh when he saw the pavement pizza left after the wild party.
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After the festival last night, the streets were littered with pavement pizza, making the cleanup a real challenge.
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As they walked home, they avoided the pavement pizza that had been spilled during the celebrations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
pavement + pizza
The literal combination of 'pavement' and 'pizza' would lead a learner to expect food (or a pizza) on the pavement, so part of the meaning is derivable from the constituents. However, the slang use to mean 'vomit on the pavement' is a humorous, culture-specific metaphor that is not directly predictable from the words alone and would likely require prior exposure, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Pavement pizza is a joking image: when someone vomits on the street, the messy, often round splash can look like a flattened pizza on the pavement. So people use it to mean spilled food or 'vomit' on the street.
