crater face

crater face

slang A derogatory term for someone with very bad acne or severe scarring therefrom. Sometimes hyphenated. I was a bit of a crater face in high school, but thankfully my face cleared up in college. Wow, a crater-face like you will never get a date to the dance!
See also: crater, face
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crater-face

and pizza-face and pizza-puss and zit-face
n. a person with acne or many acne scars. (Intended as jocular. Rude and derogatory.) I gotta get some kind of medicine for these pimples. I’m getting to be a regular crater-face. I don’t want to end up a zit-face, but I love chocolate!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • crater
  • crater-face
  • in demand
  • makeout artist
  • make-out artist
  • bleeding edge
  • muckety muck
  • hit and miss
  • hit or miss
  • hit-and-miss
References in periodicals archive
He could not identify his attacker but told the jury he had a "spotty complexion" and a "crater face".
I have heard it all before: pizza face, crater face, I'm ugly because of my skin, wash ur face, ur dirty, ur disgusting, ur greasy etc the list goes on and on.
Crater Face worked as a heavy for The Licensee, who died in July 2007
He was a gangly teen with a crater face and a primer-stained Camero, which he had paid for by working the fryer at a local burger hut and selling speed to his co-workers.
Highlights of this anthology include Lauren Weinstein's "Horse Camp," in which the author spends a miserable week at sports camp shoveling manure (it rains every day) and singing gospel hymns (she's Jewish); Dash Shaw's "Crater Face," which recalls the horror of zits; Daniel Clowes' "Like A Weed Joe," about a summer the author spent with his grandparents; and Ariel Schrag's "S--t," which illustrates the extremes we will go through to avoid certain embarrassing bodily functions.
And I'm sure we've all got a distant relative who thinks they're being kind when they imply you were once a two-tonne Tessy crater face, and my, don't you look better now.
The editors do not claim to be definitive or all-inclusive, they simply document a voice that often goes undocumented with poems on Amadou Diallo, or the "Crater Face" of Denise Duhame, riding on the back of the bus with Brian Gilmore, or dealing with the "hardest part bout love" by Imani Tolliver.
With his colleague, Billy McPhee, and McPhee's cousin, George "Crater Face" McCormack, he was creating havoc in pubs and clubs in the east end.