buzzard meaning
Noun: buzzard búzurd
- [N. Amer] A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
- turkey buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura - The common European short-winged hawk
- Buteo buteo
Derived forms: buzzards
Type of: cathartid, hawk, New World vulture
Part of: Buteo, Cathartes, genus Buteo, genus Cathartes
Encyclopedia: Buzzard
[American slang]
n. an old man; a mean old man. (Especially with old.)
• Who's the buzzard in the wing-tip shoes?
• Some old buzzard is at the door asking for Mary Wilson.
Examples
More: Next- oh, man ! we thought you were buzzard food
- ?a buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air?
- the buzzard would have gotten fat on us all right
- you want to run away, them buzzards will pick you clean
- and leave him to the ants and the buzzards