food fight

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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.
    • 2025 June 14, Guy Chazan, quoting Charlie Kirk, “Trump's anti-war pledge tested amid Maga base fear of fresh conflict”, in FT Weekend, page 4:
      “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.”

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