spear biscuits

Verb

spear biscuits (third-person singular simple present spears biscuits, present participle spearing biscuits, simple past and past participle speared biscuits)

1. (homeless slang) To search garbage for food.
   • They're great campers and know how to spear biscuits and how to avoid the pussy footers and use a number ten gunboat can and chuck a dummy and hunt a wampus, you know, cool things like that.2014, David W. Goodwin, The Six-Year-Old Hobo, →ISBN
   • “Anything to keep from 'spearing biscuits' ... that's a last resort.” “Uh,” Terry began, before finally just giving up and asking, “What's that mean?” “Spearing biscuits? That's the polite way of saying digging through garbage looking for food.2014, Matthew Del Papa, Green Eyes Through Capreol, →ISBN, page 28
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spear, biscuits.
   • Most of the cowboys were either eating or standing in line at their spread's chuck wagon, taking plate, cup, and eating tools, then spearing biscuits and a steak from a row of Dutch ovens ...1989, Carla J. Mills, Three Rivers, →ISBN, page 65