road warrior

Slang.

1. a person who travels extensively on business.

Word History and Origins

Origin of road warrior¹

Suggested by the film Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1981)

Example Sentences

Bobo belongs in the pantheon of filmland’s savage moppets next to “Aliens’” Newt and “The Road Warrior’s” Feral Kid.

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Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers will need to embrace their inner road warrior this season with a 2025 schedule that features plenty of travel and at least five prime-time games.

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I never thought Costner had a visual style to begin with, but at least on “Dances With Wolves,” he had cinematographer Dean Semler, who also did “The Road Warrior” and “Dead Calm.”

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Emerging from the raves for George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” came the admission, shared by many, that it just wasn’t convincing physically: too lacquered and digitally finessed, the grungy tactility of “The Road Warrior” long gone.

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Flung over the back of a bike, her long hair flowing in the wind, the shot brings to mind to another defiant woman in Miller’s 1982 “The Road Warrior.”

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