food fight en · NOUN
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Meanings
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A typically spontaneous and disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement, especially across a cafeteria room, as a form of chaotic collective behavior.
I got spaghetti sauce all over me during a food fight at lunch today.
“This is going to schism Maga terribly online,” Kirk said. “You're going to see—I don't want to say a Maga civil war, but it's going to be a Maga online food fight that is going to be very hard to navigate.”
2025 June 14, Guy Chazan, quoting Charlie Kirk, “Trump’s anti-war pledge tested amid Maga base fear of fresh conflict”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| food fights | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
de Essensschlacht (disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement) · hu kajacsata (disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement) · sv matkrig (disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement)