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foodie call

foodie call noun: the act of going on a date to obtain a free meal, without any intention to become romantically involved with the person who pays the bill.

Noun

foodie call (plural foodie calls)

  1. The act of going on a date to obtain a free meal, without any intention to become romantically involved with the person who pays the bill.
    • So for your sake, God'll start shutting down every Tinder date, every booty call, even every foodie call.2021, Yvonne Orji, Bamboozled By Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • A study on foodie calls found that 33% of women had engaged in a foodie call, and some women engaged in them frequently or very frequently (Collisson et al., 2020).2023, Justin K. Mogilski, The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Examples of foodie call in a sentence

  • With sky-high rents and an endless lineup of buzzy eateries, NYC could be seen as a foodie call free-for-all.2025 June 16, Marissa Matozzo, “From booty call to ‘foodie call’ — free dinner scammers flood dating apps as wallets tighten”, in New York...
  • A second video showed the exact same experience, with a young girl getting ready for her second foodie call of the week.2025 June 21, James Evenden, “Woman slammed for labeling man in her phone as ‘free food’ as diner finds ‘awful’ new way to score cheap...

Forms of foodie call

pluralfoodie calls

Origin of foodie call

Blend of foodie + booty call.

Questions about foodie call

What does foodie call mean?
Foodie call means the act of going on a date to obtain a free meal, without any intention to become romantically involved with the person who pays the bill.
How do you use foodie call in a sentence?
With sky-high rents and an endless lineup of buzzy eateries, NYC could be seen as a foodie call free-for-all.
What part of speech is foodie call?
Foodie call is a noun.
What is the plural of foodie call?
The plural of foodie call is foodie calls.

Words near foodie call in the dictionary

  1. foodgasm
  2. foodgasms
  3. foodgrain
  4. foodgrains
  5. foodie
  6. foodie call
  7. foodie-ism
  8. foodier
  9. foodies
  10. foodiest
  11. foodification

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