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FoodTok

FoodTok proper noun: the community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok.

Proper noun

FoodTok

  1. The community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok.
    • FoodTok can be a dizzying mash-up of competing birria taco recipes, fufu reviews, and Coca-Cola pot roast recipes passed down from sorority cookbooks. […] On FoodTok, I get to see how people eat and cook in their everyday lives, to peer into virtual kitchen windows like a voyeuristic passerby who...2021 February 9, Hazel Cills, “The Voyeuristic, Hypnotic Pleasure of FoodTok”, in Jezebel
    • What does your “For You” page look like on TikTok? Do you watch mostly dance challenges, lip syncs, comedians, travel videos or something else? Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? […] Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star? Have you ever wanted to become a TikTok celebrity...2021 May 28, Nicole Daniels, “Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’”, in The New York Times

Examples of FoodTok in a sentence

  • Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? […] Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star?2021 May 28, Nicole Daniels, “Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’”, in The New York Times:
  • TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves.2022 August 5, Lauren Sams, “How TikTok is taking over your kitchen”, in Australian Financial Review:

Origin of FoodTok

From food + -Tok.

Questions about FoodTok

What does FoodTok mean?
FoodTok means the community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok.
How do you use FoodTok in a sentence?
Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? […] Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star?
What part of speech is FoodTok?
FoodTok is a proper noun.

Words near FoodTok in the dictionary

  1. foodstyling
  2. foodstylist
  3. foodstylists
  4. foodtech
  5. foodtography
  6. FoodTok
  7. foodtrip
  8. foodtrips
  9. foodtruck
  10. foodtrucks
  11. foodware

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FoodTok (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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