"walking carpet" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-walking carpet.ogg Forms: walking carpets [plural]
Etymology: 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”. Head templates: {{en-noun}} walking carpet (plural walking carpets)
  1. (slang, derogatory or humorous) An exceptionally hairy person. Wikipedia link: Ballantine Books, Chewbacca, Princess Leia Tags: derogatory, humorous, slang Categories (topical): Hair, People Translations ((slang) exceptionally hairy person): runjavac [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), runjavica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "“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.”",
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          "ref": "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, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2018-12-13, page 72:",
          "text": "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 seeing a woman shaving her face and \"taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.",
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          "text": "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 seeing a woman shaving her face and \"taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.",
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