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walking carpet

Syllables: walk·ing car·petUK/ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/US/ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/

walking carpet noun: an exceptionally hairy person.

Noun

walking carpet (plural walking carpets)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, slang) An exceptionally hairy person.
    • “Really.” Mac arched a thick eyebrow. “You didn't say anything about my body hair when we were going out together.” / Peter kept his eyes on the espresso and away from Mac's hairy wrist. “You're not like...that guy. You're not a walking carpet. And my God, you've got muscle definition.”2003, Jonathan Cohen, chapter 2, in Bear Like Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished Maple Shade, N.J.: Bare Bones Books, Lethe Press, 2011...
    • But then my true hair problems began. […] It was all the other hairs rearing their ugly heads—between my eyebrows, above my upper lip, around my jawline, down my neck, around my new breasts, down my front to my navel, over my arms and knuckles, right down my legs to my toes. I didn't recall ever...2003, Bhargavi C. Mandava, “To Apu, with Love”, in Ophira Edut, editor, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, 2nd expanded and updated edition, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press...

Examples of walking carpet in a sentence

  • None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.2003, Bhargavi C. Mandava, “To Apu, with Love”, in Ophira Edut, editor, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, 2nd...
  • I had *some* chest hairs, but it wasn't nearly as much as some guys I've seen (there were a couple of guys I saw in the locker room at school, both seniors, who were practically walking carpets).2011 August 7, Rightardia [username], “Transgender Stories – Troy! – Chapter 1”, in alt.politics (Usenet), message-ID...

Forms of walking carpet

pluralwalking carpets

Origin of walking carpet

From a scene in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977), in which Princess Leia insults Chewbacca, a member of a race of hairy bipeds called Wookiees, by referring to him as a “walking carpet”.

Questions about walking carpet

What does walking carpet mean?
Walking carpet means an exceptionally hairy person.
How do you use walking carpet in a sentence?
None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.
What part of speech is walking carpet?
Walking carpet is a noun.
How do you pronounce walking carpet?
Walking carpet is pronounced /ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of walking carpet?
The plural of walking carpet is walking carpets.

Words near walking carpet in the dictionary

  1. walking bosses
  2. walking bus
  3. walking buses
  4. walking cane
  5. walking canes
  6. walking carpet
  7. walking carpets
  8. walking catfish
  9. walking catfishes
  10. walking chair
  11. walking chairs

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