American slang for a corpse, dead meat, or someone so close to death that the vultures might as well start circling. The phrase conjures up wide-open Western or Southern landscapes where buzzards wheel lazily in the sky above something — or someone — that's no longer walking around. Used humorously to describe a very old or exhausted person, or darkly to threaten someone. It's vivid, visceral, and undeniably evocative.
After three days in the desert without water, he figured he was nothing but buzzard bait.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) Dead meat; a corpse.
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