"flying purple people eater" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a \"flying purple people eater\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flying purple people eaters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flying purple people eater (plural flying purple people eaters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, James D. Johnson, Combat chaplain: a thirty-year Vietnam battle, page 181",
          "text": "He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. \"Some gooks are in there!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Darcy O'Brien, The Hillside Stranglers, page 249",
          "text": "I used to be afraid to go to bed at night — the name was \"one-eyed, one-eared flying purple people-eater.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Eugena Pilek, Cooperstown, page 74",
          "text": "\"Something ate the middle.\" / \"I don't suppose that something was the flying purple people eater?\" Chylak said. / He knew this scenario well: next Elliott would demand that his Happy Days night-light be left on all night",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Cody Lundin with Russell Miller and Christopher Marchetti, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes, page 47",
          "text": "Being rushed by a hungry, one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people eater and its pet Zygot, however, will cause very high levels of SNS action",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fanciful monster."
      ],
      "id": "en-flying_purple_people_eater-en-noun-UJH28EuG",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A fanciful monster."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "boogeyman"
        },
        {
          "word": "flying purple people-eater"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flying purple people eater"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From The Purple People Eater, a song by Sheb Wooley, which describes the titular creature as a \"flying purple people eater\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flying purple people eaters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "flying purple people eater (plural flying purple people eaters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, James D. Johnson, Combat chaplain: a thirty-year Vietnam battle, page 181",
          "text": "He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater. \"Some gooks are in there!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Darcy O'Brien, The Hillside Stranglers, page 249",
          "text": "I used to be afraid to go to bed at night — the name was \"one-eyed, one-eared flying purple people-eater.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Eugena Pilek, Cooperstown, page 74",
          "text": "\"Something ate the middle.\" / \"I don't suppose that something was the flying purple people eater?\" Chylak said. / He knew this scenario well: next Elliott would demand that his Happy Days night-light be left on all night",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Cody Lundin with Russell Miller and Christopher Marchetti, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes, page 47",
          "text": "Being rushed by a hungry, one-eyed, one-armed flying purple people eater and its pet Zygot, however, will cause very high levels of SNS action",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fanciful monster."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A fanciful monster."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boogeyman"
    },
    {
      "word": "flying purple people-eater"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flying purple people eater"
}