podestrian
podestrian noun: a pedestrian who listens to music (in particular, using an iPod) while walking and thus has lessened situational awareness.
Noun
podestrian (plural podestrians)
- A pedestrian who listens to music (in particular, using an iPod) while walking and thus has lessened situational awareness.
- Some Londoners have a death wish. Every day I slam on the bike brakes to avoid ploughing into people blissfully unaware of traffic thanks to their iPods ... Podestrians, as they've been labeled, wander blindly into moving traffic, smiling happily to Neil diamond.2010 January 26, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, The Contemporary Goffman (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought), Routledge, →ISBN, Enter Podestrians
- Because he was listening to his iPod, he didn’t hear the approaching light aircraft as it made an emergency landing … Two thoughts strike me about this unfortunate incident. The first is that I can see how it might have happened. “Podestrians”, as they are known to the emergency services, now...2010 March 20, Nigel Farndale, “Explaining a Darwin Award death”, in The Daily Telegraph
Forms of podestrian
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Origin of podestrian
Blend of pod + pedestrian.
Questions about podestrian
- What does podestrian mean?
- Podestrian means a pedestrian who listens to music (in particular, using an iPod) while walking and thus has lessened situational awareness.
- What part of speech is podestrian?
- Podestrian is a noun.
- What is the plural of podestrian?
- The plural of podestrian is podestrians.
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