flying purple people eater
English
Alternative forms
- flying purple people-eater
Etymology
From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a "flying purple people eater".
Noun
flying purple people eater (plural flying purple people eaters)
- (US) A fanciful monster.
- 2001, James D. Johnson, Combat chaplain: a thirty-year Vietnam battle, page 181:
- He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. "Some gooks are in there!"
- 2003, Darcy O'Brien, The Hillside Stranglers, page 249:
- I used to be afraid to go to bed at night — the name was "one-eyed, one-eared flying purple people-eater."
- 2005, Eugena Pilek, Cooperstown, page 74:
- "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
- 2007, Cody Lundin; Russell Miller, Christopher Marchetti, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes, page 47:
- Being rushed by a hungry, one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people eater and its pet Zygot, however, will cause very high levels of SNS action
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Synonyms
- boogeyman
See also
