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Wikipedia food

Wikipedia food noun: a mediocre photograph of food that makes the subject look undesirable and uncanny, generally as a result of poor lighting and framing.

wikipedia food: a mediocre photograph of food that makes the subject look undesirable and uncanny, generally as a...
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Noun

Wikipedia food (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, humorous, neologism) A mediocre photograph of food that makes the subject look undesirable and uncanny, generally as a result of poor lighting and framing.
    • when me and my boyfriend make meals we have a tradition of sending each other unappetising off-centre photographs of them in poor lighting. we call this "wikipedia food".2025 May 30, @j4gm, Tumblr
    • Wikipedia food picture but I made bread again2025 July 6, @funwithnix.bsky.social, Bluesky (post)

Examples of Wikipedia food in a sentence

  • The picture is definitely giving wikipedia food.2025 December 3, u/love-from-london, “Since everyone in the other food subs seem to think my turkey looks awful, here you go!”, in...
  • I KNOW that shits bangin but it looks so much like an unappetizing wikipedia food image2026 March 7, @luna1974.tgirl.gay‬, Bluesky (post):

Origin of Wikipedia food

Compound of Wikipedia + food, as Wikipedia—which requires images to be uploaded under a free license when possible—is known for having poor quality photographs of food. Coined by Tumblr user @j4gm before 30 May 2025 (see quotations).

Questions about Wikipedia food

What does Wikipedia food mean?
Wikipedia food means a mediocre photograph of food that makes the subject look undesirable and uncanny, generally as a result of poor lighting and framing.
How do you use Wikipedia food in a sentence?
The picture is definitely giving wikipedia food.
What part of speech is Wikipedia food?
Wikipedia food is a noun.

Words near Wikipedia food in the dictionary

  1. wikinomics
  2. Wikipaedia
  3. wikipage
  4. wikipages
  5. wikipedia
  6. Wikipedia food
  7. wikipediaed
  8. wikipediaing
  9. Wikipedialike
  10. Wikipedian
  11. Wikipedians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wikipedia food (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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