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miles of bad road

miles of bad road noun: used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.

Noun

miles of bad road pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.
    • But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83
    • At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road.2010, Eric D. Shaffer, Camouflaged Memories: Vietnam and Beyond, page 74

Questions about miles of bad road

What does miles of bad road mean?
Miles of bad road means used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.
What part of speech is miles of bad road?
Miles of bad road is a noun.

Words near miles of bad road in the dictionary

  1. miles a minute
  2. miles away
  3. Miles City
  4. Miles Cove
  5. miles gloriosus
  6. miles of bad road
  7. Miles Platting
  8. Miles' law
  9. Milesian
  10. Milesian tale
  11. Milesian tales

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