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

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

More to the point, he is seen by his base through the prism of countercultural heroes such as a knife-wielding Rambo, or Max Rockatansky, the shoulder-padded road warrior hero with a thousand faces, the high-octane vigilante crossing the wasteland, shaping the iconography of the dystopian frontier with his marauding adventurism.

From Salon

Is this really, truly the end of Black’s days as a road warrior?

From Los Angeles Times