licorice pizza
slang A vinyl phonograph record, the black, shiny appearance of which resembles that of black licorice candy. I used to love working in the record store, flipping through all the licorice pizza and chatting to people about different bands they like. I sold my licorice pizza collection in college to help make ends meet, but not a day goes by that I don't regret doing it.
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
A mnemonic device for remembering the names of the eight planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as the dwarf planet Pluto. (The phrase was in use before Pluto had ceased to be considered a true planet.) A: "Let's see, there's Mercury, um… Earth, Mars… Uranus… dang, I can never remember all the planets' names!" B: "Well, try to remember this—My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." A: "Hey, Pluto isn't a planet anymore!"
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
A mnemonic device for remembering the names of the eight planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as the dwarf planet Pluto. (The phrase was in use before Pluto had ceased to be considered a true planet.) A: "Let's see, there's Mercury, um… Earth, Mars… Uranus… dang, I can never remember all the planets' names!" B: "Well, try to remember this—My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." A: "Hey, Pluto isn't a planet anymore!"
pizza face
slang A derogatory term for someone with very bad acne or severe scarring therefrom. Sometimes hyphenated. I was a bit of a pizza face in high school, but thankfully, my face cleared up in college. Wow, a pizza-face like you will never get a date to the dance!
pizza puss
slang A derogatory term for someone with very bad acne or severe scarring therefrom. Sometimes hyphenated. I was a bit of a pizza puss in high school, but thankfully, my face cleared up in college. A pizza-puss like you will never get a date to the dance!
pizza table
informal A nickname for the small plastic tripod placed in the center of a pizza to prevent a takeout pizza box from making contact with it. Were it not for the pizza table, the cheese would always get stuck to the top of the box. I always like to have my toys sit around the pizza table whenever my family ordered Domino's.
road pizza
1. slang The (usually flattened) remains of dead animal in the road after having been struck and killed by a motor vehicle; roadkill. There were more road pizzas than we could count along that stretch of the highway.
2. slang The victim of a car accident whose body is badly mutilated. Be sure to wear your seatbelt. You don't want to end up as a road pizza, do you?
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