pavement pizza

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pavement pizza (countable and uncountable, plural pavement pizzas)

1. (UK, Australia, humorous) A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vomit

   I think I'm about to deliver a pavement pizza.

   • 2004, Andrew Holmes, Matthew Reeves, Pains on Trains: A Commuter′s Guide to the 50 Most Irritating Travel Companions, page 207:

     Being drunk is one thing, but creating a pavement pizza on a train is clearly overstepping the mark.

   • 2009, Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man: A Yorkshireman's Tale, page 77:

     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.

   • 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.

2. (humorous) The badly damaged bodily remains of a person who has jumped or fallen from a great height.
   • 1998, Eileen Dreyer, Brain Dead, page 287:

     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.

   • 2008, Christopher Nosnibor, The Plagiarist, page 107:

     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.

   • 2011, Bob Sehlinger, The Unofficial Guide to Britain′s Best Days Out, Theme Parks and Attractions, page 133:

     Fortunately, technology is in place to slow your descent before you become pavement-pizza.

3. (US, humorous) Roadkill.
   • 1995, Margaret Lawrence, “Cousin Cassie′s Cookin′”, in Annette J. Bruce, J. Stephen Brooks, editors, Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers, page 43:

     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.

   • 2004 September 13, Editorial Opinion, Philadelphia Daily News (PA):

     Had I been in an SUV, the kid would have been pavement pizza.

   • 2005, Paul Frederick Kluge, Final Exam, page 21:

     If that schnauzer winds up pavement pizza, they′d love reporting me, they′d be checking my tires for fur in no time.