flying purple people eater

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From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a "flying purple people eater".

Noun

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flying purple people eater (plural flying purple people eaters)

  1. (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 with Russell Miller and 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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