by Mullenly August 22, 2021
A fruitless search or mission, particularly relating to love and romance. Coined by singer-songwriter Adele, it referred originally to her running after a boyfriend with whom she had just fought, before realising she was 'chasing an empty pavement' as he was no longer there.
by herringprincess October 15, 2008
by Suzanne and Tom Hodgkinson January 7, 2006
When you walk up to someone on the pavement and you both try to move out of each other's way, and in doing so repeatedly move into each other's way.
by Connie LaBelle January 18, 2015
1: What people continue to let their dogs do despite so-called laws.
2: What the council do by putting up all those hideous new lamp posts (usually featureless metal posts with shapeless lumps of plastic on top of them, resembling giant golf clubs). Thanks to carefree, penny-pinching councils, we now have old town and village centres looking like football pitches full of floodlights. We also have landfill sights struggling to cope with the thousands of perfectly good lamp posts which have been removed due to pointless rules and regulations.
2: What the council do by putting up all those hideous new lamp posts (usually featureless metal posts with shapeless lumps of plastic on top of them, resembling giant golf clubs). Thanks to carefree, penny-pinching councils, we now have old town and village centres looking like football pitches full of floodlights. We also have landfill sights struggling to cope with the thousands of perfectly good lamp posts which have been removed due to pointless rules and regulations.
Howcome the council don't get fined for fouling the pavement. Go away and take your cheap rubbish with you.
by Stormsworder October 25, 2006
A prostitute or street walker.
by HailMD September 24, 2017
A hard working Italian just trying to get his untaxed $25 an hour from his dads paving company while often suffering from unfair working conditions
by Chopperindabag March 10, 2019