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disco rice

disco rice noun: maggots.

Noun

disco rice (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Maggots.
    • Some terms have crossed over into pop culture. Art exhibits around the country now feature mongo, New York sanitation slang for salvaged garbage. Other expressions are less than enticing. Disco rice refers to maggots. Urban whitefish are used condoms.2004 July 31, Ian Urbina, “Disco Rice, and Other Trash Talk; Picking Up the Garbage Means Picking Up the Lingo”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2021

Origin of disco rice

From their rice-like appearance and wiggling motions, as if dancing.

Questions about disco rice

What does disco rice mean?
Disco rice means maggots.
What part of speech is disco rice?
Disco rice is a noun.

Words near disco rice in the dictionary

  1. disco nap
  2. disco naps
  3. disco perm
  4. disco perms
  5. disco polo
  6. disco rice
  7. disco stick
  8. disco sticks
  9. disco-
  10. disco-bunny
  11. disco-dance

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