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Urban Tumbleweed

A plastic grocery bag blowing down the street during a windy day in the city.
The urban tumbleweed marked the onset of an impending storm, leaving the onlooker to ponder which grocery store it came from.
Urban Tumbleweed by Jon Henshaw August 22, 2005

Urban Tumbleweed

A plastic grocery bag blowing around the street.
When driving into the city, I saw an urban tumbleweed blow across the road.
Urban Tumbleweed by Polkadude February 6, 2013

urban tumble weed 

noun: dry plastic grocery bag blowing in the wind. Usually found on a city street or near a water source such as a river.
What is that blowing across the street? Oh, it's urban tumble weed.

Urban Tumbleweed

A rolling ball of street garbage. Urban Tumbleweed contains spent 9mm casings, ripped-out hair weaves, empty pizza boxes, used condoms, malt liquor bottles, pepper spray cans and severed fingers.
After she tore out that bitch's weave it got caught up in the Urban Tumbleweed.

Urban Tumbleweed

Any plastic bag or newspaper tumbling around the city. Windblown litter.
Jerry: What the hell's that noise? Plastic?

Jack: Urban tumbleweeds dude, reminds you where you are.
Urban Tumbleweed by RedBaroness January 1, 2011

urban tumbleweeds

filmy, plastic shopping bags flipping around, everywhere and anywhere.

what happened to the missing sock? ask the urban tumbleweeds! they've HAVE to have seen something! -they're everywhere, including hundreds of miles out at sea, masquerading as jellyfish for the lucky, hungry marine life!
john HAD to control the urban tumbleweeds! he couldn't have one 'wafting' over the baby's head!!

they found her stone dead, de-oxygenated under a mass of urban tumbleweeds!