albatross
LARGE SEABIRDS ALLIED TO THE PROCELLARIIDS, STORM-PETRELS AND DIVING-PETRELS IN THE ORDER PROCELLARIIFORMES
Diomedeidae; Albatrosses; Giant Albatross; Albatoss; Goonie bird; Goony bird
(albatrosses)
1.
An albatross is a very large white seabird.
N-COUNT
2.
If you describe something or someone as an albatross around your neck, you mean that they cause you great problems from which you cannot escape, or they prevent you from doing what you want to do.
Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
N-COUNT: usu with supp [disapproval]