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food fight

food fight noun: 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.

Noun

food fight (plural food fights)

  1. 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

Forms of food fight

pluralfood fights

Questions about food fight

What does food fight mean?
Food fight means 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.
What part of speech is food fight?
Food fight is a noun.
What is the plural of food fight?
The plural of food fight is food fights.

Words near food fight in the dictionary

  1. food digger
  2. food drive
  3. food drives
  4. food fall
  5. food falls
  6. food fight
  7. food fights
  8. food fish
  9. food fishes
  10. food for powder
  11. food for the gods

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